Word: spoiling
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...Middles, who last beat Harvard in 1937 to spoil an otherwise undefeated season are accorded the best chance of upsetting the Varsity. With things in a mild turmoil at the Academy, the Navy crew fortunes fell into the hands of an inexperienced group of oarsmen...
Fact was, Roosevelt, Perkins, William Davis, vice chairman of the Mediation Board, were all reluctant to call in the board except as a last resort. The risk of failure in this toughest of all disputes was much too great; failure would darken a good early record and spoil the growing psychological effect of a so-far-triumphant board...
...cannot go on any longer in these terrible times. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it, but cannot fight any longer. I owe all my happiness in life to you. You have been so perfectly good. I cannot go on and spoil your life...
...last time she was heard on a Network program, her voice was so alluring that an anonymous admire felt urged to telephone the studio and pronounce her his "dreamgirl." But the idealistic Lochinvar insisted that he did not want a date with her, lest it spoil the illusion...
...assured by more strangulating, if less direct, German inroads. Farms had been wrecked after their owners fled before the advancing Germans last summer. Cattle were scattered or killed and eaten by the troops, milk-swollen cows ruined by neglect. Disrupted electric systems had stopped refrigeration, allowing precious foodstuffs to spoil in the hot summer months. Grain needed for spring sowing is expensive and hard to find...