Word: spoiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have charity is a man's own decision, and he cannot be criticized for it. But to limit or spoil the charity of others is despicable. And when that charity is small and cheap, a man must be very cheap indeed to take it away...
...Nations caught new spirit, too. On U.S. urging, the Assembly voted 47 to 0 to impose an embargo on war materials to Mao's China. No nation opposed it. Even India, Burma and Indonesia, who were among the eight who abstained, on the misty notion that it might spoil chances for peace, announced that they would support the embargo in practice. The five nations of the Soviet bloc refused to participate...
...Life So Nice? Roger Buliard found no "noble savages." The Eskimos revealed most of the standard human faults, plus a few special ones of their own, e.g., though Eskimos spoil their children, they sometimes commit infanticide. Buliard found them brave in the face of danger and stoic in the face of. death, but without the softer virtues of pity and compassion. They treat their women, Buliard concluded, as mere objects of comfort, and they occasionally kill rivals to get them. Yet they are capable of a certain philosophical appreciation of the value and transitoriness of life. Buliard is struck...
...Before the ambulance took the priest to the New York train in March, the couple sent many letters to friends, asked for "fervent prayers." Her husband's case was so critical that Mrs. Jones feared that Dr. Thompson would refuse to operate-because he would not want to spoil his good record. "But life is more important to Dr. Thompson than statistics," she says. After 19 days of observation, Father Jones underwent the ticklish operation. Four weeks later he was back home in Indiana, able to walk up & down stairs and stroll outdoors. He hopes, in six months...
Left fielder Joes Sangiolo slapped Ward's first eight inning pitch over second base for a clean single to spoil the perfect stint. The tall sophomore right-hander had less control than usual, walking four, hitting one batter, and striking out only three over the route...