Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dedicatory "globalunch," where the dishes included räker (peeled shrimp) from Norway, sur sill (sour herring) from Sweden, and topinambours en daube (stew of Jerusalem artichokes) from France, Chairman Ken Parker preached his gospel that tariffs should be abolished by the U.S. and other nations, and free world trade restored. Said he: "Two-way trade with foreign nations ... is the only really practical way to achieve peace on this earth. Two individuals or two communities or two nations who mutually profit from trading with each other do not tend to quarrel...
...apples" of the Bible were certainly not the modern fruit, which was developed in postbiblical times from a small, sour, woody fruit native to the Caucasus. Solomon comforted his loved one with apricots, not with apples...
...corruption "asinine" or who has still refused to fire Harry "Deep Freeze" Vaughan, Wallace "Grain Speculation" Graham, or Donald Dawson who, as presidential patronage boss with power to hire and fire the directors of the RFC, the Fullbright Report found, "recommended" many RFC loans which later went sour. This he did, the Report continued, on the advice of E. Merle Young, later indicted...
Last week Fox announced that he would sell his holdings. It was not, said Fox, that he had grown sour on Western Union's prospects; he merely needed more time-and reportedly more money-for his newest buy, the Boston Post (TIME, June 30). But Fox could only unload 100,000 shares at his price, for an estimated profit of $1,000,000. So many other investors hustled to sell that Western Union stock plunged 2⅝ points...
...turn. Although he was as fierce an anti-Communist as he had been an anti-Nazi, Schumacher said no to every statesmanlike gesture made in postwar Europe-the Schuman Plan, NATO, West Germany's joining the European Defense Community. Even in his own party he became dictatorial and sour, antagonized such figures as witty, courageous Ernst Reuter, West Berlin's mayor, who thought Schumacher's opposition to the West was dangerous. Schumacher earned the name Herr Nein...