Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Huskies, an erratic but capable team, started the Crimson on the road to ruin in their first meeting, January...
Nkrumah caught on fast, and was soon hedging and weaving like an old Tammany pro. C.P.P. had promised to revoke a government order which compelled cocoa growers to destroy diseased plants; in power, Nkrumah found that to do so would ruin the industry. He simply swallowed his words and let the order stand...
...This will ruin my whole life," yelled Diane, weeping harder. "I'm supposed to be married next month." The D.A. did not argue the point-it was his impression that Diane was engaged to a rich Continental, now in the U.S. But she went off to the Women's House of Detention anyhow, thereby reproving the district attorney's old saw: the primrose path leads but to the pokey. Diane's case seemed to suggest, however, that a girl could pick up a lot of mink and diamonds...
...road to ruin in the publishing business is strewn with unsold copies of good books and the bones of the publishing-house editors who picked them. Nowadays, the most successful editors are often nonliterary chaps with a well-developed knack for betting right on the question: What will the most readers buy? For early 1953, the experts are betting on historical novels...
Something profound has happened since he wrote. War has changed its shape and its dimension. It cannot now be a 'stage' in the development of anything save ruin for your regime and your homeland...