Word: souring
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Noting that over 40 percent of the students are seniors. Professor Robert Coles said the upper class contingent were not gut-seekers but sour searchers. "The reading matter deals with ethical and moral issues that people deal with after college," he said...
...late '70s, it all began to sour. Never the most together of bands, The Who suffered through intense personality clashes and general boredom. Daltrey, Townshend and Entwistle all worked on solo projects and talked occasionally of splitting. Who Are You (1978), though by no means a bad effort, lacked the cohesiveness and consistency of Townshend's earlier work. And when Moon died of a drug overdose, a few months after the album's release, all were sure The Who would call it quits...
...suffered two heart attacks and was still feeling the effects of breaking his hip last November, Begin, 69, was working last week at his usual rigorous pace. He generally rises at 5 a.m., and for the next three hours, after breakfasting on sour milk, cold herring and tea (no lemon, milk or sugar, but some artificial sweetener), he reads four Hebrew-language daily newspapers and the English-language Jerusalem Post. Around 8 a.m., he is whisked to his office eight minutes away in the silver Dodge that serves as Israel's official car for the Prime Minister. Then he really...
...Facility, a five-year term is with luck just that: five years of life terribly circumscribed, with all but a few personal choices and pleasures denied. But in many other prisons, implicit in the same nominal term are five years of extortion and knives; bodies grabbed and ransacked; a sour, filthy cell shared for most of a day with a hothead who wouldn't mind killing again. The experience of a given prison is indiscriminate: the car thief endures the same, day by day, as the angel-dust wholesaler and the habitual stomper of schoolchildren...
...Corona before midnight. Thus, the all-night dive. Store 24 (1438 Mass Ave.) provides everything from soup to nuts for the odd hours gourmand. Fig Newtons are just as delicious as you remember, and Mom's not around to stop you from eating the whole box. Brigham's has sour coffee and bad ice cream. Both used to stay open 24 hours a day. Now they close before 3 a.m. No class...