Word: sours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Letters of Beethoven, edited by Emily Anderson. For those who are forever trying to dissect genius, this is an instructive and humbling collection; the composer's letters show him to have been petty, sour, contentious and a hypochondriac, and give no hint at all of the spirit that soars in his music...
...housewives try to thicken watery gruel by adding grass. Hungry people from Tientsin sneak into the fields at night to steal corn from the stalks, and Kwangtung villagers are reportedly eating bark from the trees. Among the fantastic mountain shapes of Kweilin spread even more fantastic rumors: the sour-tasting new soy sauce is said to be made from human hair. In Peking, when the first fish to arrive in weeks proved rotten, enraged women beat up a Communist official. Everywhere the traditional Chinese greeting "Have you eaten?" has turned bitter...
...Rafael Leonidas ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., be forced to give up the reins of government and clear out of the country. Last October U.S. planners thought that they had worked out a way to have democracy and Trujillos as well. Last week the plan suddenly went sour, and in the midst of the uproar, young Trujillo quit as head of the armed forces and reportedly left the country...
...corn mash the shape of a pineapple, wrapped in green cornhusks. Each of us took a handful of the cold pozol and put it in our bowls, adding water and stirring it with the brown water. If it was not too many days old, it was not too sour. The Indians carefully cleaned out their bowls, picking up the last wet crumbs with a swish of their dark fingers around the inside of the bowls...
...laws to prevent Gallo from calling those flavored drinks 'wine.' It's a disgrace to the whole history of wine." Another Napa Valley man adds bitterly: "Caesar fell. Mussolini fell. Gallo will fall!" Retorts Gallo, his frozen stare framed by rimless glasses: "It's all sour grapes. When all the sour grapes are swept away, there isn't an honest man in the industry who would tell unfriendly stories about...