Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chairman Walter A. Gordon of California's Adult Authority explained why Pedrini had been paroled. "Sometimes you judge wrongly. You can't tell that a man'll go sour like Pedrini. But murderers have our best parole records, and we take into consideration the best measurements of the human mind now available. I don't wish to minimize the fear and apprehension of those whose lives have been threatened . . . but men who make such threats under the heat and strain of a courtroom rarely carry them out." Pedrini's potential victims could only hope...
...John Gardner came to the defense of the drama in a speech in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, in which he said that "the illiberal, unmanly, and despotical act which now prohibits theatrical exhibitions among us, to me, Sir, appears to be the brutal, monstrous, spawn of a sour, envious, morose, malignant and truly benighted superstition." In 1794 the first theater opened in Boston...
...Four-Year Plan and invited them to ask themselves each morning what they had done to further it. Amidst acclamation, he never played the hero's role. Evenings, he and his wife Paula (whom he married in Brooklyn) sat at the kitchen table eating a supper of sour cream, cheese, bread and salad. He clung to the white, open-necked shirt that is the unofficial uniform of the Israeli pioneer. Once he turned up at a Mapai meeting after a Soviet embassy reception, still clad in striped pants and morning coat, explained: "Please forgive my working clothes...
...home-wine crop comes from le Midi méditerranéen, roughly the region between Marseille and the Pyrenees. It is cheap, tart wine, and much of it is mixed with Algerian wine and sold as vin rouge, which must be consumed quickly, or it will turn sour...
...decentralized until it is virtually a cluster of separate organizations, each with its own boss. For every P. & G. product, there is a "brand man" who takes full responsibility for results. If sales slip, it is up to the brand man to find out why. If an ad goes sour, the brand man gets on the agency's back. If more production is needed, it is up to him to try to get it. And when a competing company puts out a product at a lower price or with a new "wonder" ingredient, P. & G.'s brand...