Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heroes, like Hudson River shad, are a notably perishable commodity; no matter how brightly they may gleam when they are hauled into public view, they have a disconcerting tendency to spoil if they are left in the sun. Those who do not go gracefully to an early grave often fall easy prey to baldness, fallen arches and the horrors of earning a living. Even if they avoid relief rolls, and skid-road bars, they are still apt to end up squirting old ladies with water pistols at American Legion conventions...
...meal eating encouraged is the crackers and milk served at 10 p.m. nightly during exam period. Fifteen years ago, however, hot soup was passed out during the middle of exams. The tradition was permanently discontinued by the harrassed professors. They found that spilled broth and ?what? broads seemed to spoil the austere atmosphere of the exam hours...
...autonomy between the medical profession and a government bureau, the bill embraces the better portions of two extremes into a new and distinctly stronger plan. It should come near accomplishing the age-old goal of medical insurance programs--to keep medicine from being neither a luxury nor a political spoil...
Yale has a chance to spoil the varsity squash team's chances for a Big Three squash title this afternoon, when it entertains the Crimson on the New Haven courts. Should Harvard win, it will have its first title since...
...Spoil the Broth. On one point the statement's drafters were firm. National Committeeman Werner Schroeder, who speaks for the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick, wanted to abandon the bipartisan foreign policy, but he was briskly quashed. Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge fought vainly for a more vigorous civil-rights plank. Cried Lodge: "We've got to get the ball and run with it. We must declare our forthright determination to break a filibuster if necessary...