Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consumers have switched to fancier though still inexpensive varietals, such as Kendall-Jackson's $12-a-bottle Chardonnay. Now Kendall-Jackson, an industry innovator with $150 million in sales, alleges that Gallo's new Turning Leaf brand illegally copies the label and look of K-J's best seller. Sour grapes, retorts Gallo, whose distribution power has helped the Turning Leaf line make inroads into Kendall-Jackson's markets...
...most cynical sitcom clan seemed to have been injected with happy juice. "Man, it's so clean!" marveled Dan, on first seeing the home of Space Mountain and giant Goofy impersonators. "I want to be worthy of living here!" exclaimed Roseanne's sister Jackie. Daughter Darlene was a sour holdout at first, but even she was won over--by a big hug from Winnie the Pooh...
...Crimson barely missed advancing to the second round of competition at the Ivies, thus ending its season on a sour note...
...G.O.P. agenda. One by one, they have buried almost every item in the Contract with America. And where the G.O.P. has managed to get critical bills passed in the Senate--on welfare reform, for instance--the Democrats have generally reshaped them, sanding off enough of the ideological edges to sour the victory for many Republicans...
...whole thing was deeply embarrassing to McDougal. Here he'd brought the Clintons in as a favor, and the investment was turning sour. Thus it was with considerable excitement that McDougal told Bill and Hillary of the project's first sale, one of the lots bordering the river, in September 1979. Within six months, they'd sold five more lots. But the down payments on the lot sales barely covered Wade's real estate commissions and the closing costs. At the end of May 1980, with the Citizens Bank loan up for renewal and the next quarterly interest payment...