Word: ruinous
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...week long, stubborn Syngman Rhee, veteran fighter for a free Korea, sat on his terrace overlooking Seoul and waged a war of nerves. His object was unmistakable: to block the armistice as a ruinous compromise...
...first years, Israel had spent far beyond its means. The state had pursued a policy of "ingathering" foreign Jews-the world's sick, homeless and unwanted -that was in principle irreproachable but in practice ruinous. Its population doubled in four years. In that four years, Israel had to import $800 million worth of goods while its exports paid for only one-eighth that amount...
...farming folk. From the 4th Century, Chartres had been their spiritual center. When their Christian church, on the site of a Druid shrine, was destroyed by pagan Normans in 858, the people built a better one. Three times in the next three centuries, the church was swept by ruinous fires. Each time they made it more splendid than before...
Said Dr. Claton S. Rice, president of the Washington-North Idaho Council of Churches: "Our fundamental thought is to avoid the ruinous competition which has strangled churches in many towns. In some places there are feeble, self-supporting churches 50 years old competing with another denomination in our group...
...announcement that the two teams would meet here created much speculation in the sports world. Both teams have been having troubles with their athletic policies, and for months there have been ruinous that big athletic shakeups are due at Open and Closed in the very near future...