Word: spoiling
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...open up the doors at six o'clock in the morning. One day I'm making coffee. A maniac comes in. 'Hey, jerk,' he says, 'gimme a cupa coffee.' Jerk! You're not in business to fight, right? A physical altercation can spoil the nickels. 'Derelict,' I say, 'don't disturb my equanimity.' So again he insults me-a hollow hulk like that. So I say to him: 'Your idiocy is very refreshing.' So he gets sore and wants to fight...
...meat packer stirred the 600 members of the Independent Meat Packers Association to hot applause in Manhattan last week, when he suggested that OPA place a moratorium on meat rationing for the two holiday weeks. His argument: if the beef and pork products were not moved quickly, they would spoil since there is no storage space. Further, such action might strike "a deathblow at the black market." Other food dealers suggested that WFA release part of its gigantic 433 million Ib. of frozen fruits, 1.7 million cases of eggs, 176 million lb. of butter. This would ease the storage problem...
Your correspondent gives a vivid impression of a convention "floundering" along, and then being thrown in its last hour into a "frenzy of plans" through a "bystander," Mr. L. H. Schultz, who "stood just about all the aimless dreaming he could stand." I dislike to spoil a dramatic story, but perhaps the facts will improve...
Error Four. At the polls last week, precinct leaders of both parties took a realistic view of a plain political fact: for voters unused to splitting tickets, an attempt to vote against Aurelio might spoil the whole ballot. It was easier, and safer, to forget all about Aurelio and urge the straight ticket...
...hear sniffs of derision?" he asks. "What . . . if the sheep leave a hoof print to spoil your lie? What if the greens are too slow or uneven to make perfect putting possible? What if, in the absence of rough, the man who slices has as good a chance as you? My answer is that you, Mr. Sniffer, are probably the man who slices and in your heart you'd be extremely happy to find that you didn't have to lose three strokes three feet off the fairway...