Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fond, mellow mood eventually turns sour. Kanin. carefully foreshadowing, leads the reader toward what should be a shocker of an ending. The combo folded, the narrator recalls, after its thunderous Negro drummer died of too many pep pills and too much whisky. Slowly, 25 years later, the sax player is made aware of a horrifying truth: one of the white bandsmen, obsessed with race hatred, deliberately fed the ailing Negro the poison that would kill...
...clear, must follow a merger with the neighboring independent Federation of Malaya, and would take perhaps "five, ten, 15 or 20 years." When the British-owned Straits Times threatened to move across Singapore's causeway to Malaya to fight P.A.P. better, Lee shouted: "Any newspaper that tries to sour up relations between Malaya and Singapore after May 30 will go in for subversion. We will put in any editor, subeditor or reporter who goes along this line, and keep...
...promised to maintain the city in a state of honest sin-to let the gambling and prostitution go merrily unchecked, but to cut out the protection payoffs. Clough's program worked well enough to win him re-election in 1957, but then things began to go sour...
Week's only sour note for Chris Herter was struck on the Senate floor when Florida Democrat Spessard Holland noted for the record that many were "fearful" about Herter's "resolution and firmness," urged Herter to meet the "challenge." Before the week was out Herter...
...really a school piece, full of ill-chewed borrowings from Joyce and Virginia Woolf. The hero is a sticky, artistic young man-a kind of underdone Dedalus-who rebels weakly against the smothering care of his mother. He gets some support from his friend, a medical student with the sour outlook but none of the roistering profanity of Dedalus' Buck Mulligan. But after a week's timorous escape at a seaside resort, the rebel returns and surrenders to his clucking parent...