Word: spoiling
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...read the book and I don't want to spoil it by seeing the movie." That's the reaction of a great many people who see one of their cherished novels advertised at the local cinema. Too often does established fiction submit to a most exhaustive mincing in the name of "entertainment" on its way to the screen...
...cinemas shut at 9. Lights were off in many parts of London. Many places were without fuel. Food was served to the homeless by many volunteer organizations and nobody starved. The power plant of an East End meatpacking factory was bombed. Instead of letting five tons of meat spoil, the manager dumped it in a caldron, added vegetables, served stew to bombees. But an increasing number of London's poor had no shelter but bomb shelters...
...three months I have not allowed an answer to be given because I was of the opinion that they would stop this mischief," he explained. "We will now spoil the game of these air pirates. . . . If the British Air Force drops 2,000, 3,000 or 4,000 kilograms of bombs, then we shall now in a single night drop 150,000, 300,000 or 400,000 kilograms of bombs, and more...
...small restaurant in Greenwich Village. To help family finances, Julia was working as a companion to Mrs. Frederick C. Horner, wife of the assistant to the chairman of General Motors. Her two sons were in school. The two old friends lunched, talked about Courtrai, 1918. So as not to spoil their reunion, they avoided the subject of Courtrai...
...negligence that creeps into a Victor set, a break ill-timed in the middle of a movement, an orchestral entrance made before the sound-track starts, or exasperatingly, an entrance made late, several barren seconds during which you hear the needle scraping around the record. Mistakes like these spoil the continuity of a work, and can, if listened to repeatedly, become infuriating. However, until such time as Victor finds its sales lagging or its critics too loud to ignore, it will continue to neglect these points, and sit preening its feathers on its contribution to American culture...