Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heart. The teacher must also know how to organize his course, reminding students of the whole, "pointing out the peaks still to be scaled, the valleys unexplored," as they examine each of the parts. "The last three or four days of teaching can make a good course or spoil it," warns Highet. "Usually they are given up to a mad rush through the last ten experiments, a sketchy outline of the century still to be covered, an earnest but hollow adjuration to 'look over this for yourselves, with special attention to,' or something else of that kind...
...hopes of getting the hand for the Louvre, since the Greek government no longer permits its antique treasures to leave the country, but he did not especially care: "Even if a whole arm was discovered we probably would not want to fit it onto our statue because it would spoil the whole effect. A statue without a head and with only one arm looks rather awkward...
Greeks wanted "Van Flit," as they call him, to remember their gratitude. During the days before his departure, gifts poured into his Grande Bretagne hotel room: rugs, trays, photographs, and a precious pair of cuff links (a gift from Queen Frederika). His harassed wife Helen sighed, "They spoil him so he is going to be impossible to live with." Van Fleet said he was proud to be leaving behind a tautly trained Greek army, "today the finest in this part of the world...
...Oubaas (Old Master) was 80 last week. Nothing showed Jan Christian Smuts's continued influence more vividly than the way his enemies tried to spoil the party. But not even his former pupil and now bitterest rival, Premier Daniel Malan, could prevent Smuts's having the most rousing reception of a long life...
...sorts of arguments have been advanced against the Club. Some observers feel the building will spoil the esthetic effect of the Lowell House tower, others consider a new Varsity Club detrimental to the spirit of the House plan. But the only reason which the Corporation saw fit to offer for its decision was that it had a "moral obligation" to Allston Burr '89, and it is this which has served as the center of the controversy. Once you decide the "moral obligation" does not exist, then you can spend Burr's donation, which amounts to over one million dollars...