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Word: sourly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called the speech "massive and magnificent" (though Labor's Nye Bevan, sharpest British critic of the U.S., dissented on the ground that Eisenhower was conceding "nothing at all"). In France, the non-Communist press applauded ("historic discourse . . . appeals to good will") while the Communist press struck the only sour note ("preachifying is mingled with . . . unreasonable demands"). In Italy, Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi called it "honest and vigorous." Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, coming to the end of his U.S. visit, was enthusiastic; so, back home, was his Socialist opponent, Eric Ollenhauer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Unprecedented Response | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

Things began going sour in Georgia-so far as the rest of the world was told-in the fall of 1951. Hundreds, perhaps thousands,of minor Red flunkeys were sent to the wall, but instead of getting better, the mess got worse. Tiflis newspapers exposed such "grave economic crimes" as "embezzlement of socialist property," "windows and doors that have fallen to pieces," "bedbugs breeding in our hotels." Then Pravda joined in with a story of "connivance" and "protectionism" in the Georgian party cadres; it charged last June that Georgia's Communist leaders did not know the names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Local Boy Makes Good | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...great panacea for the world's ills and a strategic weapon in the present fight against Communism. It is sad, indeed, that such a petty sense of property has caused the Lampoon to crawl sniveling and whining to the state department. It is a move that can only sour the nation's laughter. For the state department to take a hand in returning the bird would be nothing short of appeasement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Poonsters Demand Russians Return Ibis | 4/22/1953 | See Source »

...Puritan mind . . . felt the need to name many girl babies Patience, Prudence, Peace, Faith, Hope, Charity, Tolerance, Preserved and even Chastity. Many names from abroad escape notice only because they must be translated. Thus, we have Semtana, Neugeboren, Trissotin and Malatesta, which, in their respective languages, refer to Messrs. Sour Cream, Newly Born, Three Times Silly and Headache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAW: Sign of the Goat | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...hockey coach Harry Cleverly seemed to be feeding on sour grapes at last Tuesday's hockey luncheon. Naturally, the sour grapes got the publicity...

Author: By David W. Cudhea, | Title: Octagonal Pentagonal Desire of B.U. Coach | 2/19/1953 | See Source »

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