Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...literary disaster, it sometimes seems that stories about his arch-opposite just can't miss. Presumably there is a sound theological basis for all this: virtue could hardly be considered virtuous if it were also indisputably fun, while a patently offensive Old Nick would have trouble procuring the ruin of souls...
...funniest request was for us not to wear tons of Harvard stuff when we're in Japan," said Vollmer, who sensed "vehement opposition" on the part of the University. "I figure it's an easy enough request to follow, and we don't want to ruin this for next year's guys, so we said, 'Okay...
...recent issue of the Soviet weekly Ogonyok, which has campaigned against anti-Semitism, printed some of the hate mail it has received: "You Jews started this damn revolution, and now your plot to ruin Mother Russia has succeeded" and "We must not let you slink out of the country, or we'll have to hunt you down like Trotsky. We'll get you here, because that way it will be cheaper...
...Indians, a day for offering thanks) and rarely move beyond Care-Bears sentimentality. This built-in ickiness is a pity, since it tends to overshadow the symbolic significance of Thanksgiving, that most unrepentantly old- fashioned of American celebrations, that patriotic heirloom that nobody has figured out a way to ruin...
...Vanessa Venable owns the plantation, or 600 acres of it. The chimney is her haunting and triumphant little ruin. Mrs. Venable, a schoolteacher for 42 years and past president of the Prince Edward County N.A.A.C.P., lives with her husband, the Rev. H.R. Venable, in a brick bungalow on the site of the slave owners' house...