Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of the rock-'n'-roll generation, I suppose I should be accustomed to reading about such tragedies as "Ruin Around a Rebel" [Jan. 13], but this is one tragedy I can hardly push from my mind. I feel nothing but pity for Christine Nystrom and for the wife and children of the man she killed. Why couldn't there have been the usual logical reasons for her behavior...
...twelve years we have slithered from one crisis to another. It has meant a pound sterling which has sunk from 20 shillings to twelve. It is a picture of a nation in full retreat from its responsibilities. That is not the path to greatness. It is the road to ruin...
Gervaise. Emile Zola's L'Assommoir, a vast cry at man's fate, diminished by French taste into a touching story of a woman's ruin; with Maria Schell (TIME...
...police. Clé was anxious that the commissioner understand why he had wrecked his apartment. He had not acted from remorse, sadism or simple vandalism, wrote Clé, but "because I do not want to leave anything to our French government, which is leading the nation to its ruin. . . I believe it is better to die quickly, rather than suffer slow death in the chaos of modern democracy...
...equally effective brake on surplus farm production is the proposal to set the range of price supports at between 60 and 90 per cent of parity. With this weapon, plus elimination of "escalator" supports, Benson admittedly has the power to threaten economic ruin to large areas of agriculture. Yet Congressional charges that Benson wishes to become an agriculture "czar" confuse the threat with his long range goals. An anti-surplus program would eventually stabilize production and demand such that government support and control would be reduced, not increased...