Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forest fires destroy millions of dollars' worth of lumber each year. But in some areas fires run second to the boring, chomping insect hordes that eat their way through the forest, leaving wide patches in ruin. Last week a Russian scientist reported considerable success in a kind of bacteriological warfare against a pesky caterpillar that attacks Siberia's vast evergreen forests...
Though Castro continues to do most of the talking, the reins of government are being quietly gathered up by professional Communists (see box) who intend to make sure that amateurs do not ruin the revolution...
...following questions, simply (you know what I mean) pick the answer that seems most appropriate. If none of the answers particularly appeals to you, try not to let it ruin your day. Most of them don't appeal to us, either, but that's journalism. So if noneseems right, take the least wrongest, or guees, or say the hell with it and throw your pencil across the room in a blind rage...
...dreams of his glory--of freedom and roving and life on the open seas. Few illusions remain for the seaman himself. But when the adolescent daughter of his two friends fails to remember his lost grandeur, the old sailor is lost. This innocent cruelty is his final ruin...
Where Nelson Rockefeller was on shaky ground was in assuming that he could, just by saying so, divorce his personal and public lives. His marital breakup need not necessarily ruin his political future. But if he were to remarry, the circumstances of that decision would certainly affect his public prospects. For, rightly or wrongly, elections in the U.S. often turn as much on an assessment of the candidate-his personality, character, behavior-as upon the causes he espouses...