Word: ruin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sartorial brilliance of her trousseau might have come from The Arabian Nights" But the jury awarded her ?10,500 damages. In tears, Liana turned down nearly four-fifths of the award and accepted only ?2,200. She said: "I do not want the money. I do not want to ruin...
...Peace!" Last month the commission began a purge of provincial Communist leaders, particularly in the coal-mining north, where the heresy of "Titoism" has been gaining ground. When Armand Moche, president of the miners' union of the Nord Department, was dismissed, he shouted, "You are leading France to ruin!" and stalked out, slamming the door...
...most bitter winter the West had known since 1889, still remembered as the winter of the Great White Ruin. Since January's great blizzard (TIME, Jan. 17), one swirling snowstorm had followed another; Wyoming, Nebraska and South Dakota had been hit by 18 in 27 days. There had been incessant cold-temperatures had fallen as low as 40° below zero. Howling winds piled the snow in endless dunes. On the range, feed was buried deep; springs, watering troughs and streams were frozen; ranch houses were isolated, thousands of miles of roads were lost in drifts. Snow even covered...
Lintner thinks that study of mistakes in past mortgage policies can forestall any impending ruin in the real estate field. When the last depression came on, he explains, bank lending policies were unwise. Heavy losses began to show up on real estate loans, and banks withdrew from the mortgage market. This was the time when risks on new loans were the smallest and the country needed willing mortgagers, Lintner explains...
...artist of his isolation and triumphantly detects his childhood scars and disfiguring pockmarks. Esthetic policemen suspiciously sniff his every breath and lay down chalk lines which they order him to follow; he is never released, only paroled. A similar attitude toward a baker would alone be enough to ruin any promise of good bread...