Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...football game doesn't ruin a fall, of course and it was a long way to exam period. But there were two developments that tempered weekend enthusiasm and made defeats all the worse. The day of the wooden goalposts was gone, replaced by an era of solid steel things. Drinking at games had gotten out of hand, they said, and "obvious violators" would be thrown out before they and their drinks could get into the game. Columnist Red Smith chided the H.A.A. for depriving spectators of "the only solace that would serve" when the Crimson wasn't winning...
...years his main business was simply to protest evils and inequities. Shahn made his messages so plain that many of them were converted into posters by the addition of a slogan. During World War II Shahn became a poster artist for the Government, later put the horror and ruin of war into some of the most powerful pictures of his career. The changes of history were clearly not stranding Shahn; he still held a wickedly glinting mirror up to the woes of the world. But that job ceased to satisfy...
...strangely to life. Around his memory, three women begin to dance slowly, lazily, like tired butterflies: the young girl, who falls in love with the shade she raised; the mother, scatterbrained and scatterhearted, who is shackled to the remembered lover; and the young man's cousin, a great ruin of a woman, who suddenly presents a claim of her own to the dead love. The bond between the two older women, one strangely dominating the other's life, might once have grown into a whole Gothic novel, but no Goth is Author Bowen: her plot twists...
...laid a curse on you, Ilya? What have you done? You are kind, intelligent, tender, honorable, and-you are going to wrack and ruin! What has ruined you? There is no name for that evil.' " 'Yes, there is,' he said in a hardly audible whisper...
...This half-crazy and . . . ridiculous old man." "That half-mad firebrand who would soon ruin everything, and be a Dictator." Thus, on two occasions, did Queen Victoria fulminate against her pet hate, Liberal William Ewart Gladstone. In ferocious agreement with the Queen were the House of Lords, the City magnates and all good Tories-down to the anonymous songster who bellowed from the music-hall boards that Gladstone