Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lonnie Corder, a 19-year-old University of Oklahoma freshman, recently placed a classified ad in the Oklahoma Daily: "Are your parties a little dull? Rent a hippie. Nothing that will spoil the atmosphere, just add that little aesthetic flavor." Now, at $10 an hour, some affluent gentry of Norman, Okla., are renting the longhairs of the counterculture to decorate their parties. Thus, presumably in a triumph of free enterprise, a student whose parents have cut him off for looking like a freak can work his way through college by being...
...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 Islands; levels of expression through hot and cold soup. Uses of soup in American literature. How many cooks spoil the broth?-a narrative essay. The possibilities are endless, and therein lies the essence of Harvard...
Brown, one of Harvard's most frustrating tormentors during the regular season, will try to spoil Harvard's post-season efforts tonight at Watson Rink in the first round of the ECAC...
...flight crews. With nearly 350 daily flights canceled, the lockout is costing the airlines a combined $1.8 million daily in operating losses. The flight crews have not found much sympathy from either public or press. Commented Le Monde: "The pilots have an excellent image. Do they have to spoil it through an excess of greed?" What most bothers French aviation men is the possibility that a prolonged suspension will eat up reserves earmarked for such new purchases as the Boeing 747 and the Franco-British Concorde...
...time, Wilson had grandiose visions: "Chains of A.A. hospitals and tons of free literature for suffering alkies." But when he sought millions from John D. Rockefeller Jr., the philanthropist astutely replied: "I think money will spoil this." As a result, A.A. was financed by its own members. In dealing with each other or the public, they used only their first names and initials. "Identification leads to power drives," Wilson explained. "The thought of power is one reason we were drunks in the first place...