Word: spoiling
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...Berber shepherds who tend their flocks and think their own thoughts. The French administration welcomes the advent of U.S. capital and enterprise, but insists on keeping local wages down to check inflation. Many French bureaucrats, businessmen, speculators and colons (plantation owners) grumble that the generous, kindly Americans will spoil the inhabitants...
...human beehives." Thousands of townspeople, called up by a recently organized League of Action for the Esthetic Defense of Florence, marched through the city's narrow streets, waved banners denouncing the modern "skyscrapers." They stopped to boo at particularly offensive buildings, warned Mayor Giorgio la Pira that "to spoil the beauty of Florence is to cover ourselves with dishonor." Cried one demonstrator: "Enough of this chatter! Against reinforced concrete we shall employ dynamite...
...comes a long distance from inland mountains and filters through gaps in an impermeable barrier called the Inglewood-Newport Fault (see diagram). The invading sea water moves much faster. Gierlich figured that, if nothing were done, sea water would fill the whole basin in about ten years and permanently spoil the vital wells...
...jury pricked up its ears at Mrs. Swan's charges. School butchers filed affidavits that the food center handled "starting-to-spoil" meat, that hamburgers were watered and sugared to disguise the taste, and that the meat was delivered to the schools in containers coated with maggots. After Mrs. Swan's appearance, the board hastily reformed the food center. But was there still some monkey business about the contracts...
Just as if nothing had happened to spoil the fun (see above), football bowl committees last week were busily buttonholing the teams which will still be playing football in January. Arkansas State College hit some sort of a jackpot in the annual grab-bag by accepting two bowl games: the Refrigerator, this week in Evansville, Ind., and the Tangerine, in Orlando, Fla. on New Year's Day. Other bowl lineups...