Word: spoiling
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...little older. Linda telephoned Evans a dozen times a day, demanding explanations and offering script revisions that would accommodate Romina's talent for projecting "pure love through poetry." Asked if her budding starlet might take some acting lessons, Mommy exclaimed: "Are you crazy? Do you want to spoil that gift...
...Pays? Next the Federal Government is preparing to step in. After a year's study, Interior Secretary Stewart Udall will present President Johnson with his recommendations for federal legislation in May. His chief dilemma: who should pay to reclaim orphaned "spoil banks"-land that was stripped before there were any laws by miners who are no longer around. The Interior Department estimates that there are some 800,000 acres of barren, orphaned land in the twelve-state Appalachia region alone, pegs the cost of reclaiming them at $250 million...
...gonna make a lot of money in advertising," says Cassius Sr. "You know, endorsements? So we don't want to spoil that by giving away the names of foods he ate, things he drank. So we'll just say in his life story, 'I believe he was born champion, waiting to be cultivated. And one great cultivation was Pet Milk.'" Mother Clay interrupts. "No, no. We won't name the milk, we'll just say, 'the milk his mother gave him.' Then we can sell advertisements to them later...
...general, though, Playboy ads are discreet?no stag movies, no sex manuals. "Playboy takes the reader into a kind of dream world," explains Advertising Director Howard Lederer. "We create a euphoria and we want nothing to spoil it. We don't want a reader to come suddenly on an ad that says he has bad breath. We don't want him to be reminded of the fact, though it may be true, that he is going bald...
...Boily won a battle with Bob Carr behind the nets and somehow passed to Wakabayashi, who somehow put the puck past Diercks at 13:48. Then Bassi, who can smell a goal like other bears smell honey, half-volleyed a bouncing puck into the lower left corner to spoil Harvard's bid for the tourney's only upset...