Word: sours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...astonishing that Mrs. Luce berates the press for reporting the facts of Richard Nixon's dismal career. Her sour-grapes ukase harks back to the Byzantine protocol that required the beheading of the messenger who bore evil tidings...
Though Advance Australia Fair is now the official tune, some sour Australians would just as soon whistle Dixie. The Women's Electoral Lobby, a liberationist group, objected to the male chauvinism of the opening line: "Australia's sons, let us rejoice." Other complainers pointed out with obstinate but irrefutable logic that God Save the Queen was almost anti-British in comparison with the obsequious lyrics of Advance Australia Fair, which was written and composed by an emigrant Scottish carpenter around 1878. Sample lyrics...
...winner. One of the losers leaked the outline to the CIA, which considered Marchetti to be a turncoat who had developed a "sour belly" over U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia...
...Sour Belly. While he was working with community organizations, he recalls, "Eagle Scouts came around with their long hair telling me they were not going to Viet Nam. I had a hard time arguing with them. It seemed to me that the world was changing quite a bit, and neither the CIA nor the Government was changing along with...
South African-born Writer Dan Jacobson built a small but solid reputation dealing with what he knew best: the politics and heartbreak of apartheid, the sour loneliness of race supremacy, and love shattered by cultural collision, and the moral and intellectual conflicts of exile. Jacobson is now 45, and he moved to England permanently in 1954. Three years ago after the tread on these original themes had begun to wear a little thin, Jacobson seemed to take a fresh fictional start and produced his best novel. Called The Rape of Tamar, it was an ironic retelling of the Old Testament...