Word: souring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...graduated '53, played defensive tackle and was the number two ground gainer his senior year," an enterprising son of Harvard told the bartender while he sipped a gratis whiskey sour...
...Spark had talent to burn. Then, in the late 1960s, a suspicion arose that burning was exactly what she had done with it. Gone was the somber exuberance of such earlier triumphs as Memento Mori, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means. The froth turned sour and her amused awareness of human daffiness was drowned in simple venom. The Abbess of Crewe (1974), Spark's deft parody of Watergate set in an English convent, gave reason to hope that all was not lost. The Takeover proves that nothing has been lost...
Resignation, rather than rage, seems to be the prevailing mood. A middle-aged farmer from the Mozambique border area struck a common theme. "I'm tired of running," he sighed. "I left Kenya when it became independent and went to Zambia. Then Zambia turned sour for whites, and I came here. Now Rhodesia is going black. The logical place to go may be South Africa, but race relations there are a bloody sight worse than ours. So I'll stay and take my chances, just as long as the blacks don't go bonkers." His buddy...
...Radcliffe soccer club began its intercollegiate existence on a sour note yesterday with a 3-0 loss to Yale...
Although the Democratic regulars' charges were heavily tainted by the stain of sour grapes, their essential point was at least superficially correct. Carter and his aides freely admitted having deliberately downplayed the narrow, particular issues upon which the other Democratic candidates had focused their campaigns in favor of the more general, and in the Carter camp's view, overarching issue of governmental integrity and accountability, as personified by the President of the United States. Furthermore, national polls demonstrated profound differences of opinion among Carter supporters with regard not only to their own positions on such controversial issues as busing...