Word: sours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great relief." A top British official said, "Carter deserves praise. The risks were great, but in the post-Iran situation, the risks of doing nothing were greater." Editorialized London's Daily Telegraph: "A peace treaty between [Egypt and Israel] will have a tremendous potential." The only completely sour notes were heard from some of Sadat's fellow Arab leaders and the Kremlin. Protested the Soviet Communist Party daily Pravda: "This is an abandonment [by Sadat] of the defense of the interests of the Palestinian people...
...Hanover, then First Boston, now Blyth Eastman Dillon−INA. He is one of those multinational deal makers who live in Concordes, four-star hotels and mahogany-walled counting houses. He always rides a crest in good times and bad, making money −much money−despite a few sour deals among all the bonanzas...
...Another sour note in the Carter family week came when Gloria Carter Spann kept playing her harmonica in an Americus restaurant. Other customers complained. Police were called, vainly ordered the First Sister to stop, and finally arrested her for disorderly conduct...
...college dropout. He is fifty-seven; she is twenty-two. It takes him 200 pages to get around to making love to her. They love each other, passionately, but Dubin cannot let go of his wife, of his ordered life. Malamud's descriptions of a middle-aged marriage-gone-sour are minutely detailed, embarassing in their intimacy and immediacy...
Buckley helped create Starr in 1966 and was its chairman from 1969 until 977. In 1971 he set up a separate venture called Sitco in partnership with three other Starr officer-directors. Sitco bought 7 Texas movie theaters, but the investment went sour; revenue from the theaters could not cover the interest on the partners' loans, and they faced a threat of personal bankruptcy. In 1974, however, Buckley allegedly proposed that Starr itself buy the theaters. The next year it did -for $8 million, most of which represented assumption of the partners' loans. The SEC charged that this...