Word: sours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GAVIN SCOTT, our Buenos Aires bureau chief, was sipping a pisco sour in Santiago and planning to attend the inauguration of Chile's new President when the news of trouble began to come in from Bolivia. That country's Vice President was in open rebellion against the government, and other military men were siding with him. With his knowledge of Bolivia, which is part of his over-trie-mountains territory, Scott knew that the government there needed support of the military to continue in power, and recognized the situation as a symptom of serious difficulty...
...Believe. U.S. space scientists had nothing but congratulations for the Russian feat. But a definitive judgment cannot be made with confidence because the Russians have so far concealed most of the facts on which scientific assessment could be based. And as a result of that secrecy, a few sour notes were inevitable. From Switzerland, West Germany and Britain came reports that the Russians had intended a much longer flight: that communications difficulties, the illness of a passenger, or the malfunctioning of a second-stage rocket had forced the Sunrise down prematurely. Senator Clinton Anderson, chairman of the Senate Space...
...patterns of early dating have turned young people sour," Hamill declared...
...price-resistance movement swept through New Delhi. Housewives banded together to buy milk directly from producers. Brij Mohan, 38, a city councilor, started trucking in potatoes from the Punjab, sold them at artificially low prices. "These are political potatoes, which can appear only once a year," said a sour grocer watching Mohan with scales in hand dispensing potatoes on the sidewalk. But the campaign forced city merchants to lower their prices, and aroused public opinion as never before...
...able to choose between two such capable men as Kennedy and Keating, both of whom have already served their country with distinction. I would also be humiliated that so many of my fellow New Yorkers have allowed the mediocrity of the presidential candidates to diffuse through and sour their outlook of an honorable and capable man seeking their support for the continuation of a fine public career. Martin B. Vidgoff...