Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration has become entangled by its own double-talk and mouthwash slogans. "Peace, Progress, and Prosperity" expressed a hopeful note which somewhere turned sour. A successful military man should know that last war's weapons fast become obsolete, yet defunct ideas and empty symbols still dominate the President's approach to recession recovery. The White House, for example, was exceedingly cruel when it suggested recently that the unemployed were being uncooperative by their failure to buy more goods. Luxury items, to be sure, are selling close to pre-recession levels, but the rich are patriotic and will always pull hard...
...sipped listlessly at his champagne, having previously confessed that he was not much of a drinker ("Whisky I don't take at all because of the smell. I drank it once in America"). Then as ebullient Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss charged into the room, Mikoyan's sour mien brightened. He opened the conversation bluntly. "You are a nice man, but we don't particularly like your speeches. Why are you arming with nuclear weapons?" The florid Bavarian stood his ground. "We are a dwarf," he replied equably. "You are a giant...
...Atlantic, lies Mullet Peninsula. Here, where Gaelic is spoken from infancy and not learned painfully in the schools, the scanty human population is kept busy propitiating fairies, changelings, merrows, leprechauns, banshees, pookas, cluricaunes, far darrigs, fear-gortas and headless dallahans, who all like to amuse themselves by turning milk sour, making cows break their legs, laming horses, or defying the machine age by overturning tractors and hurling rocks bigger than themselves into machinery...
...want them to show that picture of me voting every Tuesday until I got bored. Not until they got bored, but until I got bored." Last week Jack Paar, henceforth answerable to NBC's brass for any serious assaults upon Winchell, trotted out the photo and a sour-prefaced retraction. Though "happy to set the record straight," Paar recalled a "complete falsehood" that Winchell had hung on Paar in 1955 and had never corrected. (The squib: "Friends of the Jack Paars ... are worrying".) "Most damaging to any family man," snapped Jack...
...Grogan roared out of early-reporting Hudson County with an unexpected 72,000-vote plurality. Then the Meyner magic began to show itself. A swollen Democratic primary turnout (350,000) helped Williams carry 18 of the remaining 20 counties with sizable pluralities. Outside Hudson, labor's endorsement went sour; e.g., Williams carried heavily unionized Passaic County 7-1. Williams finally edged Grogan by a slim 15,000 votes, but he was the first Democrat in modern New Jersey history to lose Hudson and win an election...