Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, while Iran galloped toward ruin, the U.S. State Department has been muttering that it was working for a "settlement." Presidential Troubleshooter Averell Harriman tried hard to bring about agreement between Teheran and London, and failed. Still, the State Department's only policy on Iran is to work-or wait-for a settlement...
...bring me a drink." As other waiters scurried to be of service, she cautioned the cameramen: "Don't shoot me grinning. I look like the Cheshire cat." As she answered reporters' questions she pleaded: "Don't say I'm gracious and charming. You'll ruin my reputation." For the benefit of a middle aged, overwhelmed reporter who had kissed her hand, she graciously jiggled through the Charleston until her stockings began...
Texas City's industries are keeping pace. The giant Monsanto Chemical plant, a blackened ruin after the 1947 disaster, has been rebuilt (total cost: $50 million). Other industries have spent $28,500,000 on new buildings, plan to put up another $44 million worth...
...when Manhattan cops answered a frantic call from Rose. Joyce had locked herself in a bathroom of his luxurious private apartment over the Ziegfeld Theater. When the police arrived, Rose shrilled a few stage directions ("Don't tell any reporters about this! I want no publicity. It could ruin me! Please, no publicity."), then led the way to the barricaded bathroom, where police broke through the metal door and found Joyce. She was bleeding from both wrists which she had scratched with a double-edged razor blade. "Why did this have to happen to me?" Rose moaned. Then...
...enemy had, as anticipated, come back with his own meeting place-probably to demonstrate that he was also in a position to call part of the tune. But that did not alarm the West. Kaesong was venerable to the Koreans and had, centuries ago, been their capital. Now a ruin in a shell of aged city walls, it stood in a no man's land between U.N. and Communist positions...