Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sour Note. Last week the newly reconstructed Stoa of Attalus stood completed, its 92 marble pillars gleaming with unaccustomed whiteness beneath the clear blue Athenian sky. A bevy of American and Greek scholars, statesmen and other dignitaries, including King Paul and his pert, pretty Queen Frederika, gathered at the site to dedicate the rebuilt remembrance of the past. And in all the polite and grateful words spoken, there was only one sour note. Greek Professor Anastasios Orlandos, his nation's highest authority on ancient monuments, was unable to attend, but he sent a note of dissent...
...rumors linking Javits with Communist-front organizations ten years ago. A prime source of the rumors: Jay Sourwine, former counsel of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee when it was headed by Pat McCarran and now a candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator in Nevada. Charged Democrat Sour-wine: "The Justice Department has evidence showing Javits to have been the protege of important Communists, who helped push him up the political ladder." The least of Sourwine's implications: if Republican Javits were nominated he could be thoroughly smeared...
...that there are three kinds of whisky-"cookin' whisky, drinkin' whisky, and sippin' whisky." To such famed connoisseurs as Lucius Beebe, Novelist William Faulkner and onetime Vice President John Nance Garner, the best sippin' whisky of all is Jack Daniel's Old Time Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey, a drink as distinct from standard bourbon as bottled in bond is from Old Popskull. Sparingly distilled by a secret, century-old formula in a quiet mountain glen near Lynchburg, Jack Daniel's has never tried to crash mass markets, never old more than 300,000 cases...
...Nasser a personal message: "I am with Egypt with all I possess." Jordan's young King Hussein cabled that Nasser's victories must bring "Arabism's hopeful tomorrow when our flag will fly proudly and dearly over the [Palestine] they have stolen from us." The only sour note emanated from a clandestine radio that began calling for "the ouster of the mad tyrant Nasser" and presumably sending code messages to underground agents...
...misfit as a martyr. "Being a mean child," she explains, "I hadn't the temperament for it." While mother works as a nurse and father, as Noonday Ned the Oldtime Fiddler, saws away at the local radio station, Lovey is left to the untender mercies of sour old grandma, who tries zealously to clothe the girl in blue cheesecloth and Christian resignation. But Lovey wields her cross like a blunt instrument, tears up her Braille primer, tongue-lashes sympathetic playmates, flatly turns down the great opportunity of being patronized by the local seed king's family...