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Word: ruining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, he requested a further statement of specific spots where the rallies could be held. He said this would "take the pressure off the Dean's Office," and would forestall accusations that he might be attempting to ruin a meeting by assigning it an unfavorable location...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Refuses Rally Specifications; Reynolds Vetoes Parking By Houses | 10/26/1948 | See Source »

...spare time, Saxon borrows the shirt off his writer's back, lies about his mistress (Audrey Totter) to ruin her prospects in Hollywood, pretends to love his ex-wife (Heather Angel) until he finds it unprofitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...Boston, Iseult is never allowed to reach the dead body of her lover. This type of vulgar censorship does not ruin the film but it does ruin the appetite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Eternal Return | 10/9/1948 | See Source »

...resorted to acts of force ... It has failed to work ... in good faith ... It is attempting by illegal and coercive measures ... to secure political objectives to which it is not entitled ... It has resorted to blockade measures; it has threatened the Berlin population with starvation, disease and economic ruin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Story of a Crisis | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...England during the war, who is forced to decide whether the end will justify the means. The end is the shortening of the war in Europe by the immediate destruction of three German jet factories; the means are certain and exorbitant casualtics among his own men and the ruin of his own carer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Command Decision" | 10/2/1948 | See Source »

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