Word: spoiling
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...these lousy kids come in from outside and spoil the market," said Avery, an expensively groomed seller and an avid reader of science fiction. "The new cats burn (cheat) everybody," added his girlfriend, Stinger, in the suitable Hippese...
Until the shooting last week, most students seemed almost as anxious as their government not to spoil the scene for the Olympic summer games that open this week. The government, after crushing the demonstrators, began rounding up student leaders. On the day following la noche triste, the International Olympic Committee decided that the games will go on, since "we have been assured that nothing will interfere with the peaceful entry of the Olympic flame, nor with the competitions that follow." Considering the students' renewed anger, that could turn out to be a hollow guarantee...
...Spanish-speaking country, the first in Latin America, and the first in a developing nation. They are also Mexico's first big opportunity to put its stable prosperity on inter national display. A two-month-old strike by Mexico's normally docile university students is threatening to spoil that triumph. Last week President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz ordered the army to end the strike by taking over the National University campus on the outskirts of Mexico City...
...great deal of latent opposition to Harvard's establishmentarian, title-laden choices for honorary degrees. But it's unlikely that the opposition will be voiced, because the degrees just aren't important enough to object to. If the Fellows want to beef up their Commencement party, why spoil their...
...Spoiling Tactics. General Abrams has abandoned the tactics of his predecessor, General William Westmoreland, who made wide use of brigade and even division-size sweeps that sometimes left rear areas exposed. Instead, Abrams has developed a more flexible, diversified approach that employs smaller roving units. They can watch over more territory and thus spot and spoil enemy buildups in the making. Another hopeful sign: the South Vietnamese army has steadily improved throughout the summer, and its combat units are now fully equipped with U.S. M16s...