Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world over, Shepheard's was a pulsing heart of romance and intrigue. To most Britons, Shepheard's was Egypt. By last week's end, as clouds of black smoke swirled from more than 150 fires in embattled Cairo, Shepheard's was a smoldering, wasted ruin...
...platform: uncompromising opposition to the Nehru-sponsored Hindu Code Bill, which sanctions inter-caste marriage, relaxes the prohibition against marriage between cousins seven times removed, and, for the first time, makes divorce possible -though still very difficult-for Hindu women. Wrote Brahmachari: "The Hindu Code Bill will ruin religion, confuse castes, undermine the authority of the Scriptures, damage Hindu culture, split every family, pit brothers against sisters, and profit only lawyers." Nehru, he said, is "a black Englishman [who] studied in the West . . . and is so stuffed with its ways that he wants us all to adopt Christian customs...
...When a member of the hierarchy condemns a book or play or movie and calls on all Catholics to boycott the condemned item, the collective power of Catholicism is being used to threaten a publisher or producer or theater owner with economic ruin unless he withdraws from the market something a bishop dislikes ... In a smaller way, Catholic groups and organizations badger newspaper and magazine editors. Any mention of anything Catholic must be favorable or the heat...
...began, the world price of tin shot up from less than 80? to almost $2 a Ib. Symington, the official U.S. tin buyer, refused to pay such a gouging price. Since the U.S. takes about half the world's tin, the price fell. 'Bolivian tin men cried ruin, demanded $1.50. Symington offered...
Tears & Laughter. Mossadegh does not promise his country a way out of this nearly hopeless situation. He would rather see the ruin of Iran than give in to the British, who, in his opinion, corrupted and exploited his country. He is not in any sense pro-Russian, but he intends to stick to his policies even though he knows they might lead to control of Iran by the Kremlin...