Word: sours
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...families near and families far, Or loved ones held tight' neath a bright Christmas star; Why weep you muse? What tales do you tell? Do give us your news 'fore the midnight bell. His brow furrowed deep, his countenance dour, The Christmas muse gave us a look more than sour. "I'll tell you my story of Christmas '81, And spare you the merriment, feasting and pun. Our journey begins in D.C.--Washington, (Where Santa brings coal more often than fun) The New Right announced all the bureaus were messed-up, And told the poor children: "For veggies, eat ketchup...
...must say to the President that the dream is going sour," declared Minnesota Republican Senator David Durenberger, one of several guest speakers. "The tax cut has made it more difficult to finance state and local government. One more round of this New Federalism-conducted in the frenzy of the budget process-will discredit the concept entirely...
...consensus on ailurophobia-extreme fear of cats. Some postulate a traumatic childhood experience with felines, while others blame the cat's galvanizing stare, or disdain for affection, or even its slippery, furred coat and unfriendly, arching backbone. Traditional superstitions still exist: cats suck the breath from sleeping infants, sour fresh milk, forecast the phases of the moon and serve Satan. A black cat is bad luck. According to old belief, a cat, through necromancy or something even more unfathomable, has been given nine lives. Such Draculatic positions, however, are rare. Cats themselves often seem instinctively to regard fear...
...Dallas' J.R. had been fatally shot, Larry Hagman would not, like Ned, be padding about in fraying tennis shoes, looking for work. Yet the implausibility of Woiwode's premise would hardly matter if he had made the unlikely seem inevitable. Instead, he channels his energies into sour asides on the state of modern urban life and spasms of empurpled prose: "The drink was gone. The last of it was going in a crawling sear down his esophagus, and then it struck his stomach with the breath-stopping burn of eating at the membrane over an ulcer...
Hebrew University Physiologist Jacob Steiner told the scientists that all tastes and smells accelerate the heart rates of adolescents. A sweet taste speeds the heart by 2% or 3%, bitter and sour tastes race the pulse 17% to 20% faster. Steiner, in long-term test studies of infants, discovered that first reactions to smells are inborn, not acquired. Newborns react positively to pleasant odors and screw up their faces in response to unpleasant ones, even before they have tasted any food...