Word: sours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hunt retired from the agency in 1970. "The Bay of Pigs," he says bitterly, "really ended my chance for substantial advancement within the CIA, because I was associated with it and the thing went sour." In 1971 he was asked to join the White House to plug security leaks. "It wasn't a petty operation. There were major leaks involving the SALT talks, operations in India. One leak resulted in the extermination of one of our agents in Asia. The Administration couldn't stand for that, and I worked closely with the CIA trying to stop...
...left China in 1949 with her husband, an importer, and together they opened a restaurant in Cambridge. Since then Mrs. Chen, now 55, has learned to take the sweet with the sour. She divorced her husband in 1966; later he and his new Japanese bride opened a Japanese restaurant not far from the present Joyce Chen's. In addition, six of Mrs. Chen's former chefs have left over the years to open restaurants of their own. She does not object to training future competitors. In fact, she is negotiating with the Labor Department...
...judge radical poetry than is Dean Dunlop to judge the "competence" of Professor Guinier, yet apparently Rich expected something more advanced, more avant-grade--or, at least, more subtle--from the guardians of upper-class culture, Well, even angles fart, and so must the sweet Signet subtlety occasionally sour. The elegant left (left of Eliot and Pound, that is) revealed its imperial purple this time, exposing itself as actually being scarred by the workshops of history. Yes, the Signet Society is "male-dominated": this sexism is one species of flora which flourishes in the literary salons of the bourgeoisie...
SANDERS THEATER. Sour Cream (From Brueggen, recorder; Walter van Hauwe, recorder; Kees Bocke, recorder...
Hartman declined comment on his response to the committee's decision, although he said the progress of the case thus far indicates that it may have a "sour ending...