Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Giving the German generals their due, Wheeler-Bennett makes plain that they did not want World War II, rightly fearing the double ruin of Germany and their caste. Ironically, Hitler ranted at them as pacifists as late as 1941 on the Eastern Front: "Before I became Chancellor, I thought the general staff was like a mastiff which had to be held tight by the collar . . . Since then ... it has consistently tried to impede every action that I have thought necessary . . . It is I who have always had to goad on this mastiff...
...Pusey's statement points to a partial palliative, but it is like giving a man with a broken arm a temporary anesthetic. No matter how much the public learns about Harvard's accomplishments, it will still point to those who use the Fifth Amendment as rotten apples that can ruin the whose University barrel...
...Vikings, a drinking society, meets at a Sunset Strip restaurant, numbers among its members Victor Borge, Lauritz Melchior, Michael Wilding. The Vikings wear horned helmets and bearskin robes, and on special occasions blow an ancient Bavarian mountain horn. Their motto: "Work is the ruin of the drinking classes...
...proposals, that the United Nations examine and try to extend areas of agreement, rather than concentrate on areas of disagreement, as holding out promise for "the saving of Western Civilization." Yet only by seeing the proposals as immensely significant, can the audience be very excited by the threatened ruin of the plan when the Czech U.N. Delegate and former lover of Mrs. Prescott inconsiderately drops dead in her bedroom. Nor without accepting the importance of the proposals, can the audience find credible the willingness of Mrs. Prescott's fellow delegates to remove the body and conceal the truth. The last...
...White House, to his boss, Attorney General Clark, now a Supreme Court Justice. Drawled Caudle: "It was a sweetheart. I jumped when I read that thing ... I said, Tor God's sake, Tom, don't let that appointment go through. It will come out some day and ruin...