Word: spoiling
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...ills of society continue to be brought to light today, people are beginning to seek answers in the old adage, "Spare the rod, spoil the child." As they proclaim a few beatings in a child's youth are better than years in prison later, it seems that they are missing better solutions to the problems of our youth. Communication and education go further than coat hangers and paddles, and more knowledge than more fear will take us farther...
...defeat at the hands of the Big Red hurt the team, the October 21 loss to Princeton killed it. After battling back from a goal down to force the game into extra time, the Crimson again allowed an overtime goal to spoil the result...
...last week, all that was swept aside by the picture of black males urgently but peacefully demonstrating, in all senses of the word, their strength and capability. It was a mood that even Louis Farrakhan couldn't spoil. For the Nation of Islam leader who organized the march, its chief purpose may have been to simply prove that he was the man who could make it happen; he would then capitalize on the prominence he hoped it would confer. For most of those who attended, however, the main point was comradeship, pride and rededication to a few core values...
Would not Bosnia--I hear it's lovely this time of year--profit if tens of thousands of tourists were to descend with dollars and cameras? Would the Heisenberg gaze of strangers shame the ethnic purifiers and spoil the snipers' aim? Would commercialism defeat tribalism? Or maybe Disney could take over the war and give the fighters blanks and dummy mortar shells to fire: they would enact their hatreds daily as a permanent tourist attraction...
...such a spoil sport! They...