Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of the league was pleasant news indeed. When Rickey came to town in 1950 -after building championship teams in St. Louis and Brooklyn - the Pirates were a lackluster crew bound for nowhere. As general manager, Rickey ruthlessly started to rebuild, and, according to many fans, generally managed to ruin the franchise as he poured everything into a hunt for new, young talent. Explains Rickey augustly: "I decide I'm going to paint a picture. I have the brushes and the colors, and I paint it. People can't change it. You can do that kind of painting...
...land one. But when he landed, his opponent usually dropped. Rocky never really bothered to learn how to box; he never really had to. Without losing a fight, he battered his way up through the heavyweight ranks. It took him only eight rounds to dispose of Joe Louis and ruin the comeback of that puffy remnant of a great champ. Later, he won the title by flattening Heavyweight Champion Joe Walcott in the 13th round, after being knocked down in the third for the first time in his professional life. In a return bout, it took him only one round...
...stomach for pioneering among "people who start trouble without even seeing me and my wife. I would have held out except for the grandchildren. If they lived here and went to school, the kids would pick on them, maybe rough them up. It could hurt them, maybe ruin their lives." Improvement Association President Thomas J. Collins had a more pointed answer: "It doesn't matter what Father Coogan says now. The Rouses will sell. We've made the deposit. We're willing to accept the loss and that...
...timid new hotel chambermaid is warned to expect trouble from the countess, for Lucrezia Sanziani is dotty, penniless and old-a kind of walking Roman ruin. Fresh from Rome's Trastevere slums, Carmela, the young chambermaid, is prepared to quake at the countess' least whim. Instead, she finds herself cast as a confidante of yesteryear in the old lady's wandering mind. Each day, in the afterglow of the Roman twilight, the countess stares deeply into her Florentine silver-gilt hand mirror and conjures up a hallucinated remembrance of loves past...
...village squares, Poujade cried: "We must refuse to pay tribute to a corrupt system which breaks our backs while sparing the giant profiteers who are pillaging France. Only by united resistance can we force them to reform the rotten regime which now threatens France with ruin...