Word: sours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nazis made the most of the charge in an effort to sour relations between the Russians and the other Allies. The Polish government-in-exile in London promptly asked both Germany and Russia to allow investigation by the International Red Cross. Germany agreed; Russia did not. The Nazis sent teams of medical experts, comprised of non-German doctors, to corroborate their findings, and even brought several Allied prisoners to view the bodies. The Nazis claimed that no clippings or letters were found on the bodies dated later than May 1940-more than a year before Hitler invaded Russia...
...Later, a sour Russian diplomat paid Qavam a worthy tribute: "Qavam is a man of great integrity. You can buy him, but he won't stay bought." The British Foreign Office says it has no illusions about Qavam, but regards him as perhaps the only man who can satisfy the mobs and at the same time make a realistic oil deal with the West...
...mushroom shape.* When the cloud reached its full height and the dust began to settle, the troops were checked for radioactivity and climbed back into their trucks. The mushroom top broke away and passed under the sun, blotting it out. The trucks rolled forward into the haze and the sour smell of burned cacti and Joshua trees...
...sour note sounded at Yale's family reunion last week (see above). It came from the brassy trumpet of a 25-year-old alumnus, William F. Buckley Jr. As chairman of Yale's Daily News in 1949-50, Buckley had been a sort of rebel in reverse-a fire-eating youthful conservative. Last week, in a book called God and Man at Yale (Henry Regnery; $3.50), he accused Yale in particular, and other universities in general, of sabotaging God and capitalism alike...
...compensates for her loveless existence with letters from her dropsy-cure customers, as does the cold, business-minded Verena with her profitable, secret ventures. Catherine, who is "dark as the angels of Africa" takes delight in cursing That One (Verena). "Her ugly moods sifted through the house like sour yellow mist. That One. Hush now, hush...