Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gone with the wind is the struggle against slavery; here at last is the War that was actually a super-world-series. Everyone is urged to join the fun, and men like Senator Case of New Jersey should not try to spoil it by objecting that the Federal celebration is being held under segregated conditions...
...Tennessee Williams tromping around barefooted again in that same old Dixie cup." Dazed by an endless procession of indefatigable ants in Walt Disney's Secrets of Life, Ricketts wrote: "They know nothing but work, work, work and sex, sex, sex. Where they find the time to spoil picnics, we'll never know." Now and then, in rare moments of softness, the Ricketts hostility wanes: "We-we liked-liked...
...tell me the news," recalls Jackie's aunt, Maude Davis, "but she said, 'You can't say anything about it because the Saturday Evening Post is about to come out with an article on Jack called "The Senate's Gay Young Bachelor," and this would spoil it.' " Sniffs Aunt Michelle Bouvier Putnam: "The whole Kennedy clan is unperturbed by publicity. We feel differently about it. Their clan is totally united; ours...
Whether success will spoil off-Broadway or not, the downtown stage has seemingly relinquished its role of presenting experimental and original theater, and seems to be settling for a rehash of old material, plus a scattering of pseudo avant-garde plays. While this pattern has proven disappointing to those who still seek new blood and fresh ideas off-Broadway, it provides a comfortable combination of tried theatrical works (Strindberg, Ibsen, and Shaw most conspicuously), with thin, spicy plays designed to quench a respectable suburban thirst for Evil...
...reception that followed, Khrushchev proclaimed: "Peace is inevitable. War will not help us reach our goal-it will spoil it. We must rest on the position of coexistence and nonintervention, and eventually Communism will be in force all over the earth." Offering toast after toast, Khrushchev seemed in high spirits. "They say that in the Congo the Soviet Union was beaten," he cried. "We say those who laugh last laugh best...