Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother should be transparent, a ruin of beauty. Maureen Stapleton is as solid as a mountain of pasta; one cannot see through her to the mythic past. There is bougainvillaea, and weeping willow, and a century of wounded Southern pride in the prose arias that Tennessee Williams gave the role; all one hears in Miss Stapleton's voice is the jagged, chop-chop talk of a tenement mother. The garrulity is present but not the gallantry...
...Surely, we have learned over the past three decades that the acceptance of aggression leads only to a catastrophe. Surely, we have learned that the aggressor must face the consequences of his action and be saved from the frightful miscalculation that brings all to ruin. It is the purpose of law to guide men away from such events, to establish rules of conduct which are rooted in the reality of experience...
...steer outsiders to the right place. Ward became the guide, shepherding clients to the proper bureaus and pushing bills through Congress by means of his influence on Congressmen. He also became a power in his own right. He rallied support for the measures that saved U.S. currency from ruin after the Civil War, and he helped line up the votes that kept President Andrew Johnson from being impeached. He represented railroads, shipping lines, foreign nations, and even the Mormons, whom he helped win a federal land grant in Utah. Ward was not above gross trickery: once...
...invited Otero to a simple supper of caviar and oysters-in each oyster lay a pearl. By 1894 she was so rich that she spurned an offer of 10,000 francs for one night, and the luckless man killed himself in humiliation. Young Prince Peter of Russia begged Otero, "Ruin me, but don't leave me." Premier Aristide Briand traveled to the Riviera for Otero's birthday, and once she told him, "It is fortunate you are so ugly. Otherwise, you could have induced me to folly...
...ever married anybody. He is loath to get involved with anything that interferes with his dancing. "Women are silly, every one of them," he exclaims, "but stronger than sailors. They just want to drink you dry and leave you to die of weakness." Marriage? "Why?" he says. "To ruin my life? To ruin some girl's life...