Word: sours
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Pickett has seen good wrestlers come to Harvard and go sour; he has seen potentially good teams fall apart from injuries and dropouts...
...themselves, have the sting of fresh work by a fine writer. But he has written so many stories that his fresh, vigorous writing is debased by an illusion of sameness. O'Hara sketches a middle-aged couple preparing for bed after a party, seeing each other, suddenly, with sour clarity. He has used such a moment before, often enough that it seems a device. So do the working parts of other stories, even though they still work beautifully...
...Harvard freshman football team trimmed Yale 18-3 yesterday after both squad's vaunted passing attacks went sour...
...entourage arrived at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport. With him was Liu Shao-chi, China's President. In the flare of flashbulbs, Chou's face appeared hard and unyielding. Significantly, he was greeted by only half of Russia's new diarchy, an equally sour-faced Premier Aleksei Kosygin. There were no bear hugs for Chou, though Kosygin did bring a bouquet of flowers. Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev stayed home, possibly to show that Russia was not overeager and to keep the visit a formal matter of governments, not an ideological meeting of parties...
...exhibitors are offering everything from an aircraft instrument landing system to a diesel electric locomotive. Doing business with Peking can be both sweet and sour. Japanese businessmen, no amateurs themselves, describe Mao's Marxist idealists as ruthless bargainers. Moreover, the Reds begin every session with an infuriating propaganda speech, and cannot meet at all on Wednesdays and Saturdays, when they do their own indoctrinal homework...