Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dozen societies of psychologists and psychiatrists, including psychoanalysts. Items noted by the mind-healers: ¶ A little learning about psychoanalysis is a dangerous thing; parents pick up a smattering of the subject and misuse it, said Manhattan's Dr. Mary O'Neil Hawkins. Parents who would spoil their children anyway now spoil them more, and think they have a scientific basis for doing so. They tend to intellectualize faults and vainly try to use reason to bring obedience. This is worse than simply laying down the law to small fry: "You can't do this because...
...earned its right to be intolerant: intolerant of regents who keep Negroes out of Southern colleges; intolerant of hanging judges in any region; intolerant of segregation in the Army and Navy; intolerant of any kind of injustice towards a great American minority. If the NAACP is intolerant enough to spoil one evenings pleasure for us, that is its privilege. Because during the other 364 days it was doing our hand-to-hand fighting, while we were home in bed or watching a movie. It at least has a right to be indignant about college editors who compare...
...Berber shepherds who tend their flocks and think their own thoughts. The French administration welcomes the advent of U.S. capital and enterprise, but insists on keeping local wages down to check inflation. Many French bureaucrats, businessmen, speculators and colons (plantation owners) grumble that the generous, kindly Americans will spoil the inhabitants...
...human beehives." Thousands of townspeople, called up by a recently organized League of Action for the Esthetic Defense of Florence, marched through the city's narrow streets, waved banners denouncing the modern "skyscrapers." They stopped to boo at particularly offensive buildings, warned Mayor Giorgio la Pira that "to spoil the beauty of Florence is to cover ourselves with dishonor." Cried one demonstrator: "Enough of this chatter! Against reinforced concrete we shall employ dynamite...
...comes a long distance from inland mountains and filters through gaps in an impermeable barrier called the Inglewood-Newport Fault (see diagram). The invading sea water moves much faster. Gierlich figured that, if nothing were done, sea water would fill the whole basin in about ten years and permanently spoil the vital wells...