Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidential mansion last week to present his credentials as the new U.S. Ambassador to India, scholarly-looking Ellsworth Bunker was momentarily jolted by a loud, off-key blast from a brace of turbaned trumpeters. Next morning when he opened his paper the ambassador was greeted with yet another sour note: a slashing attack on the U.S. and Britain by India's Prime Minister Nehru...
Market letters earned a sour reputation for themselves in the 1920s and '30s-and have done little to redeem it. In those days, brokers used the letters to push sales of the securities they handled, loaded them with glib predictions and tips on questionable stocks. According to a 1933 survey by the Cowles Commission for economic research, 1928-32 forecasts of how certain stocks would perform were actually 4% less accurate than if the choices had been made at random from the list. Eleven years later a similar survey by the commission found that accuracy had improved hardly...
...Groton, Conn. last week, two sleek, new submarines for the Peruvian navy slid down the ways in a dramatic double launching, and a watching crowd cheered. In Lima, a sour official communiqué suggested that the new government would have been just as happy if the submarines had never been ordered...
Although Adlai Stevenson's recent complaint of the effect of mass media on the American electorate during the past Presidential campaign has a tinge of sour grapes to it, it is worth studying. He fears that television and radio exert an unhealthy influence on American thinking, in that they tend to reduce the People to a mass, prone to the fallacies of a collective mind...
...last week, as he neared the end of his studies for a degree in dairy husbandry. Falk, now 21, figured he would have about $30,000 to buy a farm for himself and his bride, Coed Arlene Plotkin of Milwaukee. The only sour note in his academic career: the near-failing he received in a course on real estate...