Word: spoiledness
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The ominous inconvenience of the gasoline lines has aroused combinations of scapegoating and soul searching. While many Americans blame the oil companies, others regard American energy habits as a symptom of fundamental national weakness. There is an unhappy plausibility in the underlying premise that Americans have drifted into a condition...
There are at least two angles of reasoning. One holds that it is the American people themselves who are to blame for the energy crisis. "Several generations of us have been spoiled crazy," says Brandeis University Sociologist Marshall Sklare. "Having the highest standard of living in the world has made...
B.C. coach Ed Pellagrini employed a revolving-door policy in the bottom of the seventh as he sent four pitchers to the mound, but Kelley, Stenhouse, Jim Peccerillo and Charlie Santos-Buch spoiled the strategy by clouting four tape-measure doubles to give Harvard three runs and a 7-5...
The catcher-turned-outfielder had donned anything but a hero's togs through the first eight-and-a-half innings, as a base-running blunder in the sixth inning had spoiled Harvard's chances to increase its lead.
One trouble about hiring Fairbanks was that he happened to have four years left on his Patriots contract. But that didn't stop the Flatirons-or him. To entice Fairbanks westward, they reportedly offered him a package considerably more attractive than his $150,000 salary with New England: $45...