Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nothing, save for the fact that the game in which the Eagles triumphed counts in the won-lost column, while the contest which they lost only served to ruin Ravinis' shutout, not to mention the six-inning no-hitter on which he was working...
...drain." That echoes the concern of the chairman of the House Postal Service Subcommittee, James Hanley (D., N.Y.), who in a recent insertion in the Congressional Record said that those who continue to be against public service subsidies "will either purposefully or inadvertently lead the Postal Service to ruin...
...sight. The Smith government says the camps are to protect the tribes from terrorist intimidation. But many of the inhabitants are considered security risks and the camps are intended to prevent them from feeding and aiding the guerrillas. Meanwhile, the tribespeople complain, their farms have been left to ruin and their cattle...
...also have a similar schedule? Under the present calendar, Harvard students are at a severe disadvantage in securing summer jobs. Also, I know from personal experience that the Christmas break does nothing to help students prepare for exams. In fact, having the exams after Christmas accomplishes little other than ruin the vacation over worrying about the exams...
This is the landscape of touch. In Hadleigh Castle, c. 1829-a gloomy ruin at the mouth of the Thames, painted around the time of his wife's death from consumption-Constable's tactility reaches its extreme. A cowherd and his collie are encrusted blobs, identical in substance to the rocks, the ruin, the clouds; liquid or scumbled, the tossing white brush marks in the sky have a resolutely material quality for which there were no parallels in European painting...