Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Excruciatingly slow at his studies, Rex despaired of ever amounting to anything. Then he took part in a couple of school plays, and to his astonishment found himself applauded. His career was set, in a way that recalls H. L. Mencken's sour description of the sort of youth who generally gets stagestruck. "Is he," Mencken asked, "the alert, ingenious, ambitious young fellow? Is he ... the diligent reader, the hard student, the eager inquirer? No. He is, in the overwhelming main, the neighborhood fop and beau, the human clotheshorse, the nimble squire of dames. He seeks in the world...
...find the prettiest girl in a nation whose succulent peaches and sour lemons are often wrapped alike in the veils and Mother Hubbards of Islamic modesty is no easy matter. But the founders of Pakistan's Beauty Pageant Association, whose mission was to find a Miss Pakistan shapely enough to carry away the crown of Miss Universe at Long Beach, Calif., are a hardy lot. A group of 15 Westward-looking businessmen and emancipated society women (twelve of them Moslems), they devised what seemed at first to be a prejudice-proof set of rules for the conduct...
...with intrepid pilots." Other resonant military voices joined Brucker and Radford in three-part harmony-but they failed to drown out the dissonant undertones of continuing interservice clashes over roles and missions in the age of the missile and the atom (TIME, June 4). Among last week's sour notes...
...paid out on Monday, not a dog soljer no more," exults a barrack-room ballad in From Here to Eternity. But a few days later, his mustering-out pay gone, his new-found freedom turned sour, the pre-Pearl Harbor infantryman in James Jones's novel surrenders to The Re-Enlistment Blues and signs...
...Yardling team completed a 3-3 season on a sour note Saturday by bowing to the small Indians, 5 to 2. Mike Taylor and Bob Grundeman were the successful Yardlings...