Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sister Mary Ignatius (Elizabeth Franz) has taught for many years at Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow school. She believes that to spare the rod is to spoil the child, perhaps eternally. Her rod is the catechism. Her prize pupil (Mark Stefan) can make pinpoint distinctions between venial and mortal sins. The sister pops a cookie into his mouth after each impeccable response, and Stefan plays the role with the precision of an ordained parrot...
...many cooks threaten to spoil the farm bill...
...game neither team deserved to win, and neither did. It ended fittingly, with a 31-yd. field goal attempt curving wide past the right crossbar to spoil a 14-point, fourth-quarter comeback...
...belief that man's condition can always be improved upon is unique to Americans. Does this mean we are spoiled? Not unless literacy, culture or political activism spoil us. These pursuits are denied to many of the world's citizens. Must we too be deprived of them or risk being labeled spoiled...
...succeeded. With a swivel that jubilant controllers described as "right on the money," the platform brought fading Saturn back onto their TV monitors again. This week they hope to aim the cameras at Phoebe, the planet's outermost moon. Even if the problem recurs, though, it should not spoil the photographic reconnaissance of Uranus or Neptune. The controllers can simply "pan" the cameras by rolling the entire spacecraft with blasts from its small thrusters...