Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chaplain; there is nothing left but the tainted and ambiguous influence of the psychologist, who must bargain for peace and the lives of the guards. Before the insurrection is over, one man has been tortured and two cons are dead (killed by their fellows because they tried to spoil the gratuitous beauty of the riot with an attempt at escape...
...laboriously dressed up to look like a party thrown by show folk for one another. Host of last week's opening brawl (in a make-believe Waldorf duplex) was Movie Idol Rock Hudson, who a few years ago inspired the title for a comedy called Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Last week millions of televiewers found out the answer: no, because there is nothing to spoil. His amiable, muscular and vacant manner scarcely intruded on some predictably competent guests-Lisa Kirk (topnotch nightclub numbers), Sammy Davis Jr. (dervish dances and impersonations), Comedian Mort Sahl (sick, sick...
...cleared up. Several were supposed to be answered in last week's game, but the outcome of that one left only more questions: Can the varsity snap back after that tough disappointment? Just how good is the Crimson? Can it beat Columbia's "muddle huddle"? Even: Will success spoil Charlie Ravenel...
...other major activity was the seminar program on trade and political interests, held in every building offering multi-lingual translation facilities. Since the Communists had for the first time come from behind the Iron Curtain to stage a Festival, it is surprising that they would spoil the effect so badly by repressive techniques in these meetings. Some, such as the seminar on underveloped countries, traced a pre-planned picture with heavy-handed accuracy wavering only when the shouting down of contrary viewpoints neared violence...
...Manhattan to see his grandchildren, Harry S. Truman took note of the Umbrella Man, Dracula, and the rest of New York's juvenile delinquents, thought he knew the real trouble. "Spare the rod and spoil the child is what we've been doing for two generations," said old-fashioned Harry. "The peachtree switch and mother's slipper are the best things in the world to make a kid behave." Had he felt either? Grinned Truman: "Both...