Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advertisement in last week's Cambridge Chronicle, Dietz appealed for help to everyone who has "ever felt threatened and abused by selfish actions of an inconsiderate neighbor." The part-owner of a building on the corner of Palmer and Church streets charged that the two-story Coop bridge would "ruin" Palmer...
...quoted an old-and since modified-Goldwater statement calling for "prompt and final termination of the farm-subsidy programs." This, he told the farmers in his best approximation of cathedral tones, "is the death sentence for agriculture. It would impoverish farm people, wipe out billions in rural land values, ruin business on rural America's main streets, and solve absolutely nothing." And how would Hubert solve things? "You had better make sure that Lyndon Johnson remains as President...
...cared a great deal more than he thought. By the time his two years at Harvard were up, he knew that he "belonged to an old, small, much-trodden country, where every field, every path, every ruin had its memories, where :very last corner had its story." It took lim seven more years to get back, but he was back to stay. If his book is "a no to my own boyhood, my own youth, even to my own parents," it is a yes to "the basic experiment with life" that made him a writer. For better or worse...
...Cuban economy plunged deeper into ruin last year, Fidel Castro's Russian partners allowed him to sell the world 1,000,000 tons of sugar previously committed to the Soviet Union. With world sugar prices then as high as 100 per lb., the windfall netted Castro some $100 million in foreign exchange, which he immediately used for a shopping spree: buses from Britain, cranes and locomotives from France, trucks and fishing boats from Spain...
Despite scandals and blunders, the Tory Cabinet still looks like an eager, able team. Although Britain's foreign-trade deficit is alarming, while industrial production is not rising, most Britons still enjoy unprecedented prosperity, and the Tories make the most of the slogan, "Don't let Labor ruin...