Word: sours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...April 30, the day Saigon surrendered to the Communist forces, there were more than 100 foreign correspondents in the country, eight of them Americans. The Provisional Revolutionary Government allowed them to roam around Saigon and report freely on the unfolding revolution. But the situation rapidly turned sour as the journalists found it difficult to interview P.R.G. officials and to send cables to their home offices. On May 24, a group of 80 restive correspondents, most of them French or Japanese, left Saigon on a chartered flight, taking with them film and delayed dispatches. Last week the regime made another move...
...strikes on Cambodia to free the crew of the Mayaguez merchant ship. But Alton Frye, a senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, argued that Ford had begun reporting to Congress, thus setting the stage to "trigger congressional deliberation" if the military operation had been prolonged or gone sour...
Instead, he found himself in a black cell, from which he was dragged for interrogation 18 hours a day six days a week. He subsisted on sour bread, watery soup, the thinnest of porridges-and almost no sleep. More than once he plotted suicide. "Memory keeps you alive," he sums up. Dolgun clearly has an extraordinary memory, and he used it in various ways to survive...
...football game (hurrah!) along with (alas!) both teams, the TV play-by-play and color men, beer vendors, pigeons, Pinkertons and some 100,000 spectators, including the President of the U.S. The sociopath who plans this provocation is not an Arab but a defecting American named Lander, who went sour while serving time as a P.O.W. in North Viet Nam. Now he pilots the advertising blimp that floats (aha!) above every important football contest. To get all the plastic explosive he needs, Lander applies to the Palestinians, an alarming people indeed: "Najeer ... wore a hood of shadow. His hands were...
...seemed only a parody of Yeats and his forerunners in the symbolist tradition. These years of his life were also the most frustrating for Clarke, for after a three-year English professorship at University College Dublin, he was kicked out for marrying outside the Church. Clarke's marriage went sour all too soon, and his instability--perhaps a byproduct of the tension between his staunch Catholic upbringing and what he called his "little acts of curiosity about myself and others which had been set down by Freud"--led him into exile from Ireland and in and out of institutions...