Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ordinarily, the dapper little man in the paddock only had sour scorn for hunch players. But hunch shook him hard that afternoon in Chicago when a horse pulled up in the walking ring and looked him square in the face. "If ever a horse told anyone he was going to win, that horse told me," says Handicapper Hugh Matheson. "I went over and got a bet down on his nose. When I told my wife, she was furious. 'That goat,' she exploded, 'That goat...
Like Sorrowful in Little Miss Marker, Runyon looked sad and sour, even when joking, and little Damon always thought he was angry at him. Sometimes Runyon made shy overtures, but "his stumbling attempt to play the palsey Pop [was] so patently gawky" that Damon Jr. thought his father was just performing an unpleasant chore. Even Runyon's presents were wrong. Damon Jr. was afraid of the huge electric train and could not even lift the sailboat with a five-foot mainmast...
Poulenc: Nocturnes (Grant Johannesen, pianist; Concert Hall). Some sweet-sour (but mostly sweet) vaporizing by Cosmopolitan Composer Poulenc. Lightweight and pleasant, expertly played...
After a field is found, bacteria prove pesky saboteurs. The drilling mud that oilmen force down the well often contains starch, tannin and other things that bacteria love to work on. So the mud is apt to go sour and spoil like milk left out of the refrigerator. Dr. Beerstecher's advice: disinfectants to keep the mud sweet and efficient...
...late, great Yachtbuilder Henry B. Nevins was never a man to cut corners. His City Island yard in New York City seasoned its own lumber, designed and machined its own fittings, fastened its spars together with glue made of sour cream, sometimes trimmed them to the correct balance by weighing shavings. By such attention to detail, Perfectionist Henry Nevins built more cup-winning yachts than anyone else...