Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against unjust imprisonment was only beginning to emerge) and that great milestone of liberty, the Petition of Right, which set out at length what Coke put bluntly in brief: "Magna Carta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign." When Charles, cornered by lack of money, gave sour assent to the petition, there "broke out ringing of bells and bonfires" such as London had not seen for years. But the petition was Coke's last great achievement. When Parliament rose, he retired into the country. He could not know that a century and a half later...
...even that rare tribute among broadcasters, the repeated use of CBS's name on NBC broadcasts. There were a few complaints, too, over giving Communism's high priest an opportunity to spin his spiel at 7,000,000 to 10,000,000 Americans. But only one sour note fretted CBS. It came from the White House...
Novelist C. P. Snow (The New Men) issued a prompt rejoinder as to why the kept canaries of the Welfare State warble such sour notes from their badly gilded cages: "Lucky Jim will not accumulate enough money to change his way of life. He is never going to starve, but he cannot have a dramatic rise in the world ... It is an unexpected result of the Welfare State that it should make the social pattern not less rigid but much more...
...Economist David C. Elliot: "You read about 200 layoffs here, 500 there, a shutdown elsewhere. They're confined to a few spots like autos or appliances, and add up to an infinitesimal fraction of total employment. But to the uninformed, they indicate that the economy has turned sour...
...London's left-wing People under the headline: TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THE REAL AMERICA ! With this lead the Sunday People (circ. 4,948,215), which wallows weekly in a rich home-brew of slaughter, society scandal and police-court sex, last week decanted a bottle of sour-mash bamboozlement imported from the old colony across the Atlantic...