Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just products that can spoil or rot that move by air. Tens of millions of dollars in nonperishable goods are also transported by airlines, and delivery delays can lead to losses many times larger than the cost of the actual goods shipped. Commercial aviation moves 90% of the nation's first-class mails and is the principal way in which many firms rush spare parts to customers. Shell Oil Co.'s huge Norco refinery outside New Orleans daily receives several such shipments of spare parts, and its operations could have to be cut back without them...
...well-placed cameras, available to all networks, excelled in combining intimacy with spectacle. The result was less pointless darting around by cameras than usual. Gone also was another fixture of solemn English occasions, the reverent intonations of the late BBC commentator Richard Dimbleby, who whispered as if he might spoil someone's putt. It being morning-show time back in the States, the David Hartmans and Jane Pauleys, practiced in the smiling art of undemanding chatter, now reinforced the American journalistic hardhats in their vantage points along the parade route. Along with much inevitable pageant-babble, they provided useful...
...quid would be plenty," Wilson told him. "You don't want to spoil them...
January 19. A severe thunderstorm caused us to take in all sails. We made frequent attempts to catch water with our sails spread horizontally, but the boats were very low and the sails were wet with salt water and consequently filled with salt so as to spoil all the fresh water that fell-and although we used frequently to catch a sailfull in a shower, yet always found it too salty...
...because one has heard of them. "Take Jane Fonda and Shirley MacLaine. That harshness, those granite glares, the shrillness of their rhetoric--it makes one want to shriek at their ugliness." To conclude, the author provides an antidote to all this ugliness: "Put the little woman on a pedestal, spoil her by protecting her, not by taking any back talk. Oppress her. She'll love it. Force her to be obedient and feminine and even her genetic traits will start responding again. That will bring her instant happiness...