Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mining Association, Jones, now 70, has directed teams that have successfully planted 36 million trees on strip-mined land in 17 counties. His accomplishments have won over some formerly implacable foes of surface mining who now agree with Jones that the technique has its place-as long as the spoil banks turn green again. "Coal for today, timber for tomorrow," Jones says cheerfully...
Lillian Hellman, Litt.D., playwright. Aware of the ways of the foxes who spoil the harvest, her voice is satiric, uncompromising, compelling...
...Essendine, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. emphasizes the childish charm of his old chum Coward. Theatrically, this is a wise decision. The slightest stress on what can only be called the sadomasochistic implications of Essendine's relationships with his clan could easily spoil the evening. It is much better to let the unbitter truthfulness of the writing steal over one later. Excepting Fairbanks and George Pentecost as a comically clumsy young playwright, the cast, which includes Jane Alexander and Ilka Chase, never quite achieves the sense of giddy weightlessness that a Coward comedy should have. Still, the players at least sense...
There was nothing left for Harvard's baseball team to do last weekend but to play the role of spoiler in the EIBL race. And spoil it did, as the Crimson squad nailed contender Princeton. 3-1, on Friday, then edged hopeful Navy, 6.5. in the second game of a doubleheader on Saturday to squash the hopes of the Midshipmen...
Pixilated Idyl. Those who thought that success would spoil Exley's romance with failure underestimated his capacity for masochism. In Pages from a Cold Island, he comes up with a new hero to feel dwarfed beside. No mere football star, either. This time he has chosen the century's pre-eminent American critic and man of letters, Edmund Wilson. Once he creeps into Wilson's shadow, Exley happily sets off on another binge of literary self-deprecation...