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Word: ruining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swore an oath at the weatherman for telling him that it was 34 below zero on top of Mount Washington, and an oath at the meteorologists for the 80 mile an hour wind which was going to ruin his skiing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thompson Prohibits Crime for Two Weeks | 12/21/1955 | See Source »

...remote-control model auto that Japanese toymakers can turn out with 10-an-hour labor for less than half as much as it would cost to produce in the U.S. Marx bargained so closely with the crafty Japanese toymakers that Tokyo newspapers accused him of trying to ruin the industry. Marx was unabashed. "When in Rome," he shrugged, "shoot Roman candles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Little King | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...front lines were enough to quench his enthusiasm. He remembers writing his father that "this is a new type of war that will mean the end of present European civilization." Tillich now sees in that letter "a moment of vision," for he believes that the First World War did ruin the then-existing civilization of Germany and France...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: "The Ultimate Concern" | 12/10/1955 | See Source »

...Alta Cossart Lawson, a ferocious doyenne of Vincentown, N.J., returns now and then-they say-to stalk up and down -in front of the ruin of her mansion, in extirpation of the night she forced her drunken, demented son to lop off the head of his meek little wife with an ax. ¶ Lettitia Dalton, the vain and vicious wife of a rich Virginia planter, was quite a dame. One night she sent her sister Caro to an old greenhouse on her York River plantation to get some grapes. Poor Caro fell into a trap, died horribly in a shower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Friend of Ghosts | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

Although Charley Caldwell can well claim injuries with Flippin not expected to see much action at tailback, and guard Bob Aldrich out with an injured knee. Jordan this week suffered two severe losses in the line which may just about ruin an already thin front wall...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Princeton Eleven Favored to Defeat Crimson In 48th Renewal of Big Three Series Today | 11/5/1955 | See Source »

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