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...pastors, wishful thinkers, Marxist intellectuals and East zone refugees who make up the SPD, the oversimplified cry of Einheit Deutschlands (German unity) has a ringing appeal. The Socialists' late leader, Kurt Schumacher, an embittered hulk after the Nazis endlessly roughed him up in concentration camps, left behind a sour political testament: "Never again must the Socialists be caught being less nationalistic than their opponents." That advice is being meticulously followed by the bewildered and small men like Erich Ollenhauer who have taken Schumacher's place...
Egyptians call it samna, Turks call it Hindistanda kaynatilmis tereyagi, Americans call it rancid butter. Indians call it ghee (as in Fibber McGee), and they love it. They make it by boiling the milk of water buffalo, letting it cool, adding sour milk to make it curdle faster, then straining off the butter oil, which is the ghee. They eat it. spread it on sores, and anoint holy images with...
...willing to talk. Albert Forestier was a tough, 25-year-old ex-racing cyclist and newspaperman who had joined the police force only a few months before. He was soon an avid vigilante as well, but when his friends bombed the home of his old editor, he turned sour. Albert's story to the French detectives was complete with names and dates. Before he could tell it to a judge and jury, however, he died in an automobile crash. Was it an accident? Nobody knows...
...instant Ted comes boulevarding into view, through a window, the moviegoer has a sudden reflex to check his wallet. Hair plastered down, three days' growth of beard, sour-looking tropic-whites, smile like an overpolished apple and nasty little eye like a worm in it: Newton is the picture of a man who has made a gin fizzle of his life, and figures to cadge a chaser...
...termed opposition to Canadian players on American college teams "sour grapes" and said Jeremiah "has had losing seasons for so many years he is frustrated...