Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overconfidence is the only thing that can spoil the undefeated freshman soccer team's chances today when they meet the Tufts yearlings at 2 p.m. on the Business School field...
Chiaroscuro does not pretend to tell all. It is, as John amiably explains, but a "rough cross section of a part of my career . . . No doubt everything comes out in the wash eventually, but I see no reason to anticipate this process and spoil other people...
...Nixon repaired and pressed the clothes for the whole family, worked in the store during the day, and at night thriftily emptied the shelves of fruit that might spoil in another day and baked it into pies, which she put on sale in the morning. Occasionally she would catch shoplifters, but, instead of turning them over to the police, she would give them a little sermon, always aware that the disgrace of an arrest would hurt their families. Her son reflects that feeling. "Even when I was convinced that Hiss was a traitor," says Nixon, "I couldn't help...
...Spare the Leaf Mold . . ." But Teacher Peepers is at his timid zaniest when he goes to the classroom. In his special lecture, "Wake Up Your Sluggish Soil" (published originally in Petal & Stem), he concludes: "Spare the leaf mold, spoil the hepatica. Remember, your dirt is the restaurant where your flowers dine." To his students' questions he replies with thoughtful absurdities: "Yes, I think tonsils are useful to some people"; "No, I don't think we know just how fast a dinosaur...
...argument about preserving the natural beauty of the Falls did not stand up, because either public or private power would have to build the same number of installations, and both, under the treaty, would have to divert the bulk of the water flow at night so as not to spoil the Falls' beauty...