Word: sours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Purdy's goal was one of the few bright spots for Harvard, as it gave the Crimson a lead it held until 14:18 of the period, when Joey Tomlak stole the puck and waltzed in on Petrovek. Things began to turn sour when Kevin O'Donoghue took a tripping penalty at 18:41 of the first, setting up Fleming's power play goal at 0:08 of the second...
...Massachusetts Bar. He also overextended himself, writing?and vigorously promoting?two bestsellers, hosting a TV interview show, and serving as nominal publisher of Gallery, a copy-kitten rip-off of Playboy. He even made plans to play himself in a movie, The Sam Sheppard Story. Suddenly, things began to sour. The movie never got off the ground, the TV show was canceled and he left Gallery. His helicopter company was slow to lift off (it only recently began to make money), and an airport he bought near his home was on its way to losing $200,000. Most serious...
...Crimson closed within five points after Banks sailed home two last-ditch tallies, but Joe Leonidis flubbed a desperation layup with 30 seconds remaining and the 6-12 cagers had only sour grapes to gnaw...
That sort of speech always roused the good ol' boys back home. It was sour mash and corn syrup, ridicule and wit, all the local grievances stirred to a bitter brew. And it went down as well in Massachusetts as it did in Alabama. The Bay State, the only one in the union to vote for McGovern in 1972, seems tailor-made for Wallace in 1976. He craftily plays down his chances in the March 2 primary and then adds-with something between a twinkle and a leer: "What if I did get a good vote? It would...
...late '50s, trying to sour Indonesia's late President Sukarno on the Soviet Union, the CIA produced a film purporting to show him engaging in sexual relations with a woman in Moscow-and planned to pass off the movie as a KGB blackmail attempt. Before the film could be circulated in Indonesia, however, the CIA had second thoughts and canceled the dirty trick...