Word: ruin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right side-he also bought the tracks. The camera discovers him, in sleek middle age, roaring it up as the beast of the board room of the Eastern & Portland Railroad, whose cringing miscellany of vice presidents is pleading with the "general," as he likes to be called, not to ruin a poor helpless widow (Doris Day) and her two small children. With surly reluctance, he consents to make a nominal restitution to the "miserable broad" for her shipment of lobsters that died on the siding because of his penny-wise policies...
Accidental Overdose. Aimee went free after a year's uproar that brought political ruin to nearly all her opponents. Her alleged lover remained a gentleman to the last, stoutly insisting that the lady who trysted with him at Carmel was not Aimee. Author Thomas ends his book with a chapter telling what happened to all concerned in the case-all, that is, except Aimee and her immediate family. The record: after wrangling with her mother, her daughter Roberta and her fellow evangelists, Aimee died in her son Rolf's arms in 1944 as a result, said a coroner...
None of the published stories, though, came up to the statement composed by the self-styled "old cracked-up Irish ruin" himself before he went under the knife. "Mentally, I'm a mess. You've heard of mixed emotions? Man, this is rough . . . If it's a benign tumor of some sort, hurray for our side-no more sweat. If the damn thing is malignant, cancerous, then there's real trouble . . . Never felt better in my life. Then, boom: this horrible, skulking 'thing' visible only as a ghostly shadow on an X-ray negative...
...that the status issue was settled once and for all in 1952 when 81% of the voters endorsed the Commonwealth constitution. As recently as a fortnight ago, Muñoz firmly maintained that statehood and the accompanying obligation to pay federal taxes would be "the ruin" of Puerto Rico...
...Radio Performer-Impresario Arthur Godfrey, 55, signed into a Manhattan hospital, where surgeons will check up on a chest tumor. Discounting the "ivy growing in this old Irish ruin," Airman Godfrey gamely commented: "Even if the tumor is malignant, I think I've 'caught it in time-and I know people who've lived a long time with only one lung. I've flown one-engine before...