Word: ruined
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Antonio Segni's frail physique conceals a formidable will. Says a friend: "He is like the Colosseum; he looks like a ruin but he'll be around for a long time." Last week slight, silver-haired Segni, 71, proved the accuracy of the description. He outlasted his rivals during five days of cutthroat politicking and nine closely contested ballots in the Chamber of Deputies, was finally elected to a seven-year term as President of Italy. Quipped Antonio Segni's partisans in a somewhat blasphemous parody of the miraculous vision that came to the Emperor Constantine...
...nation's savings and loan associations against the President's tax bill continues this destructive tradition. As President Kennedy said in a recent press conference, the associations have misinformed the public on all aspects of the bill in order to gain support for their cause. Their success would ruin one of the most reasonable pieces of legislation designed by this administration...
...outside. In the mirror I saw him coming up fast, and then he just kept going straight." Moss's Lotus hurtled across 150 yds. of grass, plowed head on into an 8-ft.-high embankment, spun backwards about 10 yds., and stopped dead, a crumpled, almost unrecognizable ruin...
...great builder because Italy is scarce in trees and World War II demolished northern Italy. A stupid thing to say, I know, for even before the War Nervi had demonstrated undeniable genius as an engineer. Yet Nervi's is the genius of solving problems. Destruction and financial ruin in Italy necessitated speed and economy, driving Nervi to the discovery of "ferro-cement," a new reinforced concrete--cheaper, more elastic, and, of the essence, more rapidly constructed than older versions...
...dress, it is almost always Dior. Jean Barthet of Paris makes her hats. She has had the same private hairdresser for eight years. "I have never been to a beauty parlor in my life," she says, setting up a memorable non sequitur: "When I go there, they ruin me." She eats reducing tablets to help keep her measurements from becoming 38-38-38. She loves spaghetti with meat and tomato sauce, hot peppers, and grapes. "It still seems an occasion to eat meat," she says, and her childhood hunger now turns up in her terms of endearment. She calls Carlo...