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...smashes and light teasers. He still had one fault to work on: his forehand drives were floating instead of zipping. But he-beat Teammate Frank Parker in two quick sets and said, "Boy, it feels good to be hitting them again." If he kept on hitting them, he could spoil a big Christmas Week for confident, sport-crazy Australia...
...Crusaders topped Harvard 47 to 42 to spoil an otherwise perfect season while half the population of Boston struggled vainly to get into the Indoor Athletic Building. Whatever the outcome tonight, it is unlikely that anybody will ask for a refund...
Most manufacturers had refused to take the clothes back. Some stores that had illegal two-piece dresses were getting around the law by selling them as two separate garments. But most retailers have only the dubious out of snipping the illegal margins off their dresses. This would either 1) spoil the design, or 2) boost the price because of alteration cost. And the snippings would be of no use to anyone...
...only material handy, 130,000,000 Ibs. of kaoliang (sorghum), sacrificing today's food for the hope of tomorrow's. A few days later bandits dynamited a stone quarry and kidnaped ten workers; the bandits had been hired by a contractor whose theory was : why spoil a good thing by finishing...
...opened the show with a novelty uniform Madame had designed for Chinese airline stewardesses. As she swaggered down a long black runner on the lawn, guests clapped politely and flicked their cigarets on the grass. Occasionally they cast nervous glances at the overcast, wondered if rain would come to spoil the show...