Word: spoiling
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...Little Favor. At the Maughmer home, things sometimes reached a high pitch. She called the marriage "sheer hell." He denounced her for assuming the "leadership role." But divorce seemed out of the question. After all, bad publicity might spoil the two Maughmer careers...
...October 1958, when Rocky was running for Governor in his first try for elective office. He was so ambitiously bent on projecting his own rather than a party image that a top Rockefeller backer urged Nixon to cancel a scheduled TV speech in New York City lest he spoil that image. Nixon came to New York and had a well-publicized breakfast with Rocky...
...turned them loose to burn the cornfields of the Philistines. What he probably did was to arm 300 soldiers with flaming torches and inflame the men with the mushroom wonder drug. When the lovely Shulamite in The Song of Solomon cries "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines; for our vines have tender grapes!", she is asking for the fiery aphrodisiac, according to Graves, to be washed down with flagons of wine...
From a balcony, he told his followers that he was going to London soon for constitutional talks. "Do not spoil my work," he warned. "If you listen to me, you will get your own government." MacLeod's gamble was daring but it was not novel. In the long recessional of empire there was plenty of precedent-from Ireland to India to Cyprus-for turning the Queen's prisoner into the Queen's Prime Minister...
...look slinkily feline under a variety of hairdos purporting to be Egyptian. He achieves his most eye-catching effect with Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, thereby moving another glamorous tigress, New York Mirror Society Chatterist "Suzy" to comment: "When they make her a plain jane on those TV potboilers, they spoil a good thing." Said Harper's Bazaar of Avedon's gallery girls: "They belong to women who are sloe-eyed to the soul." For years, most Swedes have believed that Heavyweight Boxing King Ingemar Johansson, 27, and pretty Birgit Lundgren, 23, were much too friendly ever to get serious...