Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jury pricked up its ears at Mrs. Swan's charges. School butchers filed affidavits that the food center handled "starting-to-spoil" meat, that hamburgers were watered and sugared to disguise the taste, and that the meat was delivered to the schools in containers coated with maggots. After Mrs. Swan's appearance, the board hastily reformed the food center. But was there still some monkey business about the contracts...
Just as if nothing had happened to spoil the fun (see above), football bowl committees last week were busily buttonholing the teams which will still be playing football in January. Arkansas State College hit some sort of a jackpot in the annual grab-bag by accepting two bowl games: the Refrigerator, this week in Evansville, Ind., and the Tangerine, in Orlando, Fla. on New Year's Day. Other bowl lineups...
Forgery in Stone? Doubters soon spoke up to spoil the fun. Experts on old Norse writing claimed that the language was like no known Scandinavian dialect. Authorities decided that the stone was a forgery. It was probably carved, they thought, by a friend of Farmer Ohman, an unfrocked Swedish minister who was known to have had a Swedish grammar with a section on runes. During the past 50 years few real experts have even bothered to study the discredited stone...
...undermanned Crimson football team did its best to spoil Holy Cross' opening game in the Stadium Saturday, holding the visitors to a 6 to 6 tie through the first quarter; but the superior talent and depth of the Crusaders was more than enough to give them an eventual, and fairly easy, 33 to 7 victory...
...except a pacifist or partisan of the Kremlin," explains Bevan, "would argue that military strength is not needed to deter the rulers of Soviet Russia." But rearmament is proceeding too rapidly and may spoil the chances of a peaceful settlement. "In 1953 . . . the Americans will possess a dominance in armed strength . . . greater than that which was ever possessed by any other country in peacetime. It is not unknown for a giant to wish to use his strength, even though he is not attacked." Few Britons, except the editors of the Daily Worker and Bevan's followers, had anything good...