Word: sours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the commonest ills of man, ranking close to constipation and headaches, is the wide range of supposed digestive upsets mistakenly described as "acid indigestion." Every day, millions of Americans complain of "heartburn" or "sour stomach." TV commercials spiel endlessly about "acid upset." Some sufferers try to dignify their complaints with such technical terms as hyperacidity and acidosis. By whatever name, the problem is a high-up bellyache, and those who suffer from it in the U.S. lay out $90 million each year for antacids and alkalizers...
Often, however, heartburn comes with a backflow of partly digested food from the stomach into the esophagus. The victim may then belch up a little of this undigested food or its juices, and be concerned by the sharp taste of his "sour stomach." In most cases, this is a minor matter, and the result of gulping food while under emotional tension. A classic case is that of Wall Street brokers, who eat on their feet during midday trading. The cure is to stop eating, which is easy, and to calm down, which is not. Antacids may speed relief...
...Sophie Daumier, 27, lives with her ten-year-old son Philippe ("His father? Bah, a boy who wasn't worth marrying") and Actor Guy Bedos. A onetime toe dancer, she made ten films before last year's Dragées au Poivre (Sweet and Sour) established Sophie as "the most exuberant comic of the Nouvelle Vague." The latest Bedos-Daumier hit, Aimez-Vous les Femmes?, is a comedy about cannibalism; the piece de resistance is Sophie au naturel...
...comes to a photo finish, he knows every trick in the book: flicking a horse gently under the chin to get its head up at the wire, dropping the reins to let the horse's neck stretch out. "I've matured," he says. "With my attitude real sour like it was before, it was no good. Now I'm relaxed when I ride. You get better results that...
Ussery had reason to be sour as a boy in Vian, Okla. He and his four brothers, two sisters and mother lived on relief checks after his father left home. In the seventh grade, Robert Ussery, aged 13, dropped out and started pulling his own weight. He shined shoes in the winter, picked spinach in the summer-and grimly made up his mind to get shoes of his own and the kind of spinach you can spend. As soon as he figured out that 5 ft. 3 in. was as tall as he was going to be, he gave...