Word: souring
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...curtain would then close in December in the NCAA post-season tournament with Harvard bowing out in either the quarter or semifinal round, and an otherwise successful season would end on a uniformly sour note...
WHEN A NEW administration takes office in an atmosphere of high expectations, its first year generally closes on a sour note of fturstrated hopes, even a sense of betrayal. By the middle of its second year, however, it has a better feel for the lay of the land and has learned from its early mistakes. Then, once its newness has worn off, it can settle down to its business. So it is with Radcliffe...
None is forthcoming, so probably what we have here is a case of belated fastidiousness: an actor trying to dissociate himself from a project turning sour all around...
...successfully led a ragtag 700-man force against Communist revolutionaries and military reactionaries who were trying to destroy Costa Rica's democratic system. Don Pepe, who was elected to his second nonconsecutive presidential term in 1970, concedes that some of his business investments have gone sour in recent years. He readily acknowledges that his San Cristobal holding company, which produces, among other things, coffee bags made of sisal, "needed an injection of cash badly. I had been looking everywhere." Then he found Vesco...
...Sour suspicions about Watergate, the continued weakness of the dollar, the soaring price of gold-up to a record $118.75 an ounce in London-and the continued rise of inflation and interest rates combined to hammer the Dow Jones industrial average down 37 points, to 894. After a brief moment of sunshine, Wall Street again became a valley of despair...