Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Catholic Tastes. That is putting it mildly. Rats and their parasites carry bubonic plague, murine typhus, trichinosis, leptospirosis and other diseases. Rats bite man in anger or nibble infants in hunger. Rats spoil an estimated 33 million tons of cereals each year, either by eating them outright or contaminating them with droppings. They steal eggs (whole), gnaw lazy elephants' feet and can kill young lambs...
...care. ("You have to be a saint in this profession," says the gynecologist, but we suspect he's not about to be canonized.) And when, after being hauled off to a roadhouse-brothel by his brothers, Laurent has a small measure of success with a prostitute, his drunken brothers spoil it all by bursting into the room to drag him from bed at a thoroughly inopportune moment...
...Please, no more quotes from guys like the Rams' Deacon Jones: "I hope to end Archie Manning's career the next time we meet" [Oct. 11]. I love football. I believe it's more than goons crunching each other. Don't spoil...
Will success spoil Lee Trevino? Never, he says, confident that his trying times are behind him. Thanks to the nitty-gritty experience of his hustling days, he says the pressure of competition never bothers him. "A $5 bet and only $2 in your pocket?that's pressure." What did get to him, though, was all the promoting and partying. Easily lured out for a night of carousing with friendly Fleas, Trevino all too often would live up to his happy philosophy: "I love livin'. Why go to bed? I like to party because I missed a lot of nights when...
...research project in self-expression. Or perhaps soup as a study of differing structural systems; soup, thought and reality; soup and time-sense on the Fiji Fislads; levels of expression through hot and cold soup. Uses of soup in American literature. How many cocks spoil the broth? - a narrative essay. The possibilities are endless, and therein lies the essence of Harvard...