Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...write for their bosses" and 2) editors and publishers are "the real villains." Many legislators complained, however, that capital reporters are either incompetent or show bias in favor of their newspapers' editorial policies. Complained a Florida lawmaker: "During our special session on reapportionment, one reporter threatened to 'ruin' a legislator with publicity if he did not change his vote...
...Yale quintet, stronger in every essential than the Crimson, will be highly favored tonight to ruin Harvard's six game winning streak and retain its undisputed possession of first place in the league race, in the Payne Whitney...
...kept on writing. An Outcast of the Islands was a tale of progressive moral ruin, told with a ruthless Dostoevskian logic up to a point of no return. Lord Jim, which read like a boy's story, was actually a painful parable of the penance a man must do to reclaim honor lost in one moment of cowardice. In Heart of Darkness, the most enigmatic of his novels, Conrad used as background his dismal experiences in the Belgian Congo. Its protagonist Kurtz is a portrait of a man whose pure will-to-power has squandered itself hopelessly. In the epigraph...
Threatened Ruin. But if Nasser's sweeping decrees won little immediate net gain for his treasury, they threatened ruin to Egypt's middle class, which depends on trade with the West for its existence. Abroad, Egyptianization was bound to destroy the possibility of attracting new Western private investment in Egypt...
...earthly women . . ."). Turms is also busy making history. He contributes to the death struggle between Greece and Persia by setting fire to the temple of the Persian goddess Cybele in Sardis, helps incite war between Carthage and Sicily, insults the majesty of Rome, and leads his fellow Etruscans to ruin on the bloody field of Himera. In the end he goes alone to his doomed homeland in Etruria, where the famed twelve "sacred cities" stand in an elegiac hush awaiting the final onslaught of Gauls from the north and Romans from the south that will erase the Etruscan language...