Word: souring
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...Crimson baseball team closed out a super season, the best in Harvard's history, in fact, on a sweet and sour note Saturday. The disappointing side was its loss to Springfield, 6-4, in the opener, but the win over Brandeis to clinch the Greater Boston League title, 6-0, was sweet indeed...
...once again denounced those who had pressed for an earlier peace, insisting that they had been a "small but vocal minority" who had leveled an "unprecedented barrage of criticism" and had been willing to "humiliate" their country. If that was the bugle call to brotherhood, it sounded a rather sour note. Perhaps Henry Kissinger and, say, Daniel Ellsberg should negotiate an intranational ceasefire...
...throws open the kitchenette window, wanting the sour smell of greens and pork to sail away on a twilight breeze. Home. Home is. No complete sentence forms itself in her irritated mind. Her mind itching in the heat and odor of close living. Home is here, here is home; and it stinks. She is alone, and her life is somewhere else...
Last week Mike and Fritz publicly acknowledged what Susanne, with a giggle, calls "the most unique trade in baseball history." The players also let it be known that the switch (an open secret in the baseball world for months) is already going sour. True, Fritz and Susanne are still living together. But Marilyn has gone home to her mother, leaving Mike, in his words, "out in the cold, the only one who has nothing...
...Miltonic devil, he strides to his inherited seat in the House of Lords. At a fox hunt Jack incenses the party with a bellow for a hangman's society and leads them on to the slaughter with "Dem Bones" -- the first instance where the vaudevillian flavor leaves a sour after-taste (that is made still less delectable by a tasteless little shot of the fox, smugly relieving himself on a tree trunk. Is this Jack pissing in the face of society...