Word: spoiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard will be looking to spoil Yale's chance to share the Ivy League crown this afternoon. Yesterday afternoon, the roles were reversed, as Yale spoiled Harvard's bid to field the first undefeated freshman football team since 1962, drubbing the Crimson...
...things I'll never forget is the sight of Bobby Wine striking out to give me my third no-hitter. Try hard as I might, I just couldn't remember facing Johnny that night. I remember missing low on a 3-2 count to Dick Allen to spoil the perfect game, and I remember getting Tony Taylor (on a strike-out) and Ruben Amaro (on a pop -up) for those first two outs in the ninth. So I took a look at the books, and sure enough, Klippy wasn't in the order that night...
...Hampshire, Maine and California. That strategy looks as if it is designed to maximize the damage to Carter, and McCarthy seems almost to relish the role of wrecker. He says almost gleefully to applauding audiences: "I've been accused of being a spoiler. Well, how can you spoil this election when there's nothing to spoil...
...recently done some work on the star's chin, which was a little puffy. Still, there was no mistaking the face-or the figure-of Elizabeth Ray, who last week made her stage debut in St. Charles, Ill., at the Pheasant Run Playhouse in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Ray, whose sexual dalliance with her boss, Wayne Hays, brought about the Ohio Congressman's downfall earlier this year, quickly demonstrated that her acting ability was on a par with her secretarial skills. Though she seemed in her element on a massage table and got a good laugh when...
...suspicions add fuel to the independent candidacy of former Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy, who so far has qualified to be on the ballot in ten states and hopes to be running in 45 states by November. Is McCarthy worried about throwing the election to the Republicans? Says he: "To spoil the difference between Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter is not spoiling very much. I hope to make Carter's problems with the liberals worse." Surveys by Louis Harris and Carter's pollster Pat Caddell have found that, in some states, McCarthy could cost Carter between...