Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state constitution, said the court, already requires an adequate oath. The loosely worded new law would deny New Jerseyites an essential constitutional right -"the right to select unworthy candidates, candidates who the legislature fears might bring ruin to the state...
...night in 1914, fire broke out in College Hall. By morning, the hall ("a palace!" a visiting male had observed) was a ruin. In its place rose modern Wellesley. Stately President Ellen Fitz Pendleton and her electric brougham were succeeded by trim Mildred McAfee Horton and her Pontiac. When President Horton, wartime head of the Navy's WAVES, resigned last year to help her husband, the Rev. Douglas Horton, with his work for the Congregational Christian Churches, Wellesley went looking for a Margaret Clapp...
...frenzied crowd can wreak. The picture describes a lynching in the old West--the mistaken lynching of three innocent men by a mob too hungry for revenge to try the men fairly, Because it deals with the mob's crime realistically, because it avoids the melodrama that manages to ruin so many westerns, "The Ox-Bow Incident" is an excellent American movie...
...rising wave of liberalism. I happened to mention casually the Catholic dogma, 'There is no salvation outside the (Catholic) Church. Some acted as though I were uttering an innovation they had never heard before, and others had the doctrine so completely covered with reservations and vicious distinctions as to ruin its meaning and destroy the effect of its challenge. In a few minutes, the room was swarming with slogans of liberalism and sentimentalism. Taken in their totality and in the manner in which they were used and understood by the utterers these slogans constituted an outlook incompatible with the Catholic...
Madame Bovary. Jennifer Jones travels the path from boredom to eroticism to ruin, in a performance that Flaubert could admire (TIME...