Word: souring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that happens, the event would mark a sour end to the career of Bunky Knudsen, 63, one of the most star-crossed executives in the U.S. The son of a onetime president of General Motors, Bunky went to work for dad's company and rose to executive vice president. Passed over for the presidency of G.M., he did the unheard-of and jumped to become president of Ford-only to lose out in a power struggle with Lee Iacocca, the current president. Undaunted, Bunky in 1971 took the wheel of White Motor and got off to a promising start...
Selling Eggs. But it all turned sour. Tonight said "Enough." Rickles replaced him with Vic Damone. His record contract, after studio and musician costs were paid, netted him $180 and produced one single that tested well in Omaha but died in Atlanta-after which Epic dropped him too. Even in the Catskills, audiences played mah-jongg while he sang them love ballads, and they clacked their tiles on the table to show their bored approval. He quit, he says, "in disgust and revulsion...
Harvard hockey added a sour postscript to a surprisingly strong season Saturday night, losing to Cornell, 7-6, in the ECAC consolation game at the Boston Garden...
...Sino-American relations, which Kissinger did much to restore after a 23-year break, have gone from sweet to sour. Some diplomats insist that Richard Nixon's invitation from Peking was designed not only as an honor for the ex-President but also as a slap at Kissinger for appeasing the Russians...
...subsidy. At least 80% of the 2,450 seats must be filled or the prevailing ratio of $2 in government subsidy for every $2 in theater receipts will go perilously awry. There has been quite audible grumbling about the $30 million that has already gone into what one sour critic has labeled "the concrete Xanadu on the South Bank." Hall has astutely muted such criticism by occupying the premises, and the government is now as unlikely to turn its back on the National as Washington, D.C., would be to turn on the Kennedy Center...