Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost proudly, Kennedy said that his tax program is under attack "from both the right and the left." The unspoken conclusion was that the program must therefore be pretty good. And anyone who opposed it would be helping to bring economic ruin upon the land. If there is no tax cut. claimed Kennedy, then "the country will, in the not too distant future, be struck by its fifth postwar recession, with a heavy loss of jobs and profits, a record-breaking budget deficit, and an increased burden of national debt...
...novels. Miller admires Durrell generously, but learns nothing from him and remains his own adolescent. The young Durrell revised The Black Book for the fourth time in a manful effort to "demillerise it." But when Miller's Sexus was published, Durrell cabled him: "SEXUS DISGRACEFULLY BAD WILL COMPLETELY RUIN REPUTATION UNLESS WITHDRAWN REVISED." In an accompanying letter, he scolded his master: "The moral vulgarity of so much of it is artistically painful . . . The new mystical outlines are lost, lost ... in this shower of lavatory filth which no longer seems tonic and bracing, just excrementitious...
...proposals to grade the sophomore tutorials in History should not be modified, they should be protested. Firstly, and least importantly, the work is already graded by the tutor for the department and by the administration of Part I of the Generals. Secondly, grading the tutorials would ruin the program...
...Government, which accounts for 83% of Lockheed's sales and 77% of Douglas'. Despite the dangers of such heavy reliance-as Douglas recently discovered when it lost its $1,000,000,000 Skybolt contract-the planemakers clearly prefer dependence on Washington to again risking financial ruin with commercial jets...
...louder and curses the cook for poisoning him. At that point, Gassman strides into the kitchen and declares: "I am a doctor!" He examines the patient, says he really does have food poisoning, starts to phone the health department. "Don't," the manager begs him. "Don't ruin me! I'll do anything you ask!" The "doctor" hesitates significantly, then inquires in a low voice: "Are you offering me a bribe...