Word: soured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed, about the only sour note of the week came from the News, down south at Fort Lauderdale, which editorialized: "We're afraid the good citizens of Daytona will have to learn the hard...
...plan went sour. "We didn't have no gun," said R. E. Jackson, Clemmie's brother, "and even if we did, we wouldn't none of us known how to use it." Alarmed, Resnick glanced around to see if any neighbors were looking, then quickly got into the car. Driving aimlessly around, the five men finally decided that Sam Resnick should die by garroting...
...surprisingly, the sentences soon lose their short-story-class sterility, and become tauter and fresher. Before long, Price is writing his own wry, amusing novel, and doing it well. Rosacoke is a likable, skillfully drawn character-young and gangly-pretty, bright enough to see the sour humor in being, as she is, a good girl...
...Reds, liked to be seen passing out candy to children, inquiring solicitously about the health of party members' families. Perhaps Grobart's most important assignment: the establishment in the middle 1940s of a second Communist apparatus-removed from the official party-in case relations with Batista should sour. When they did, Grobart's alternate team swung smoothly into action to infiltrate the Batista party organization itself. Presumably Grobart is now laying similar plans in case of a successful anti-Castro revolution...
S.B.I. sought success as the Playboy of the performing arts, but in the new magazine, the spicy Playboy recipe that had cooked up a $10 million business for Hefner-a few intellectual tidbits in a meaty casserole of bare bunnies-went sour. Last month, with circulation running closer to 250,000 (mainly newsstand) than the hoped for 1,000,000, and with Hefner at least $1,500,000 out of pocket, S.B.I. switched from a fortnightly to a monthly, and pruned its staff...