Word: sours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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None is forthcoming, so probably what we have here is a case of belated fastidiousness: an actor trying to dissociate himself from a project turning sour all around...
...successfully led a ragtag 700-man force against Communist revolutionaries and military reactionaries who were trying to destroy Costa Rica's democratic system. Don Pepe, who was elected to his second nonconsecutive presidential term in 1970, concedes that some of his business investments have gone sour in recent years. He readily acknowledges that his San Cristobal holding company, which produces, among other things, coffee bags made of sisal, "needed an injection of cash badly. I had been looking everywhere." Then he found Vesco...
...Sour suspicions about Watergate, the continued weakness of the dollar, the soaring price of gold-up to a record $118.75 an ounce in London-and the continued rise of inflation and interest rates combined to hammer the Dow Jones industrial average down 37 points, to 894. After a brief moment of sunshine, Wall Street again became a valley of despair...
...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...