Word: sours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minh does manage better than Diem, if the war's pace is indeed stepped up, and if the U.S. is thereby enabled to pull out of Viet Nam sooner, then the policy will be a triumph. But these are a lot of ifs. And if they turn sour, the outcome could affect the cold war balance and U.S. political life for a long while to come...
...Senate is so sour on foreign aid that before the first week of debate was over Fulbright found that he could not even defend the $4.2 billion that his own committee had recommended in its authorization bill. He agreed with Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen to cut it to about $3.8 billion. President Kennedy originally had sought $4.9 billion, dropped his request to $4.5 billion after a critical report by a special committee headed by General Lucius Clay. The House has approved only $3.5 billion...
...evening of contemporary theatre in the little Hotel Bostonian Playhouse can be doubly sour if the acid of The Bald Soprano dissolves the sugar of The Dock Brief. Or it can be doubly rewarding. But there is no easy metaphor to explain how, so you will have to see it yourself...
Like the good red wine that goes with his meat, a French butcher has to be picked with care and pampered for years-and even then he can turn sour. Rushing in where housewives fear to tread, Charles de Gaulle in 1961 tried to battle inflation by decreeing a cut in butchers' profit margins, which in many cases amounted to 50%. Again this year, De Gaulle's regime demanded that butchers cut some fat from their prices. Last week, striking back, indignant Parisian butchers closed clown 3,355 of 3,744 butcher shops in greater Paris...
...were it not for the fact that he was a silly young man of genius. It was his genius to vibrate like a tuning fork to the music of his time. When the '20s died on Black Thursday of 1929 and the times went bad, Fitzgerald went sour with them. Although he wrote better, he was on the wrong note; having been monstrously overrewarded for his early tripe, he was cruelly undervalued when-after heroic effort-he made a fine novelist of himself...