Word: ruin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Might the plan ruin the corps' fighting efficiency...
Studio One in Hollywood: Straight off an unpretentious cuff, The Desperate Age probed an oft-hacked situation, offered an unhackneyed dramatization. The problem: Does a 28-year-old girl (Barbara Bel Geddes) continue her hapless romance with a married office chum (Wendell Corey) and ruin her chances for a normal life, or does she destroy her present happiness for an acceptable future emptiness? "I'll never love anyone as much," she says. "Maybe you can learn to," pleads her mother (Aline MacMahon). Retorts her daughter: "Maybe I'll have to learn to. That's what you mean...
Northeastern apparently makes a habit of upsetting favored Harvard teams. Last Fall the lowly Huskie hockey squad rebounded from an 11-0 defeat by the Crimson to nearly ruin the varsity's NCAA chances, topping the sextet...
...burned on the floor of Congress. Most denunciations centered not on the story's facts but on the propriety of printing them. Challenging anybody to deny the facts, Manila Times Columnist Alejandro Roces wrote: "Unless we take a cold sober look at ourselves, we can expect only ruin and even more critical remarks...
...realistic candor that would have shocked his noisy partisans. Said he: "Personally I have long been convinced that the time of colonialism is dead. You can't stand in the way of people who want to manage their own affairs. In Algeria there has been enough blood, enough ruin...