Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...within the trade. Established astrologers like Carroll Righter, who built reputations and fortunes on a 12-sign system, dismiss Schmidt's theories as "meaningless." U.S.C. Astronomy Professor Gibson Reaves points out that "astrology is essentially irrational, and to try to give it such a rational, scientific explanation would spoil it for most people, anyway." Buffs like Clark Stillman, salesman at a Greenwich Village occult bookstore, complain that Schmidt doesn't ascribe any "elements" (air, water, fire, etc.) to his new signs or enhance them "for esoteric value" with much mythology. Actually, Schmidt borrows some myths from the Encyclopaedia...
...veto the suggestion because they think the girls' bedrooms are too small and too messy for entertaining. They may easily point out how unfitting it would be for girls in curlers and wrappers to wander around the corridors of an open house. Further, some girls may object that men spoil the peace and quiet...
...Spare the rod and spoil the child" is truer today than ever before. We've been so afraid of psychological damage to our children from discipline enforcement that we've ended up with a sick young society. Back to the paddle, people. Junior's better off with a blistered butt than needle marks...
Minutes after Cleary said that, at 1-14 of the second period, Willie Bezan rifled a shot past Harvard goalie Joe Bertagna to spoil Cleary's dream of the first shut-out of the season...