Word: spoilsport
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...Wolfe doesn't see himself like that. "I'm a spoilsport," he says, "like that guy who was foxhunting during the War of the Roses and got caught between both sides." Apparently, neither Washington and Lee (B.A.), nor the Yale grad school (Ph.D. in American Studies), nor reporting stints in Springfield, Washington, and Latin stints in Springfield, Washington, and Latin America prepared him for New York. "I expected to see Mark Hellinger sauntering down Broadway in a white suit," he said to three different Harvard audiences, "but everybody wore these drab things...
Goldwater less than enthusiastic support, describing Rockefeller as a "spoilsport" and the Republican Party's "principal divider." Rockefeller was vacationing in Madrid, and the rain in Spain fell lightly on his pain. Nixon's "peevish post-election utterance," he replied, was "hardly calculated to advance" Republican Party unity. But Rocky also managed to put his finger squarely on the real Republican problem. "We don't have a Republican Party right now," he said. "We have 50 Republican parties." Diddley-Do. The distance between the extremes of the Republican Party is no greater than...
Richard Nixon would obviously like to be the heir. After last week's defeat, he called for a calm reappraisal and criticized those who had withheld full support from the national ticket, in particular Governor Rockefeller ("A spoilsport, a party-divider"). During the campaign, Nixon stumped the whole country, recementing his ties with local politicians and boosting their morale in the face of generally poor leadership from the national committee...
...little bastards," but buys them treats until he gets fed up and wants to pack them "into the bleeding orphanage." So Hubert, the most responsible of the little ones, conks him on the head with a poker. It's that old burial problem all over again; then the spoilsport authorities arrive. "Quite ordinary little children," says their teacher, as a man from the Home nervously prepares to take delivery of the six survivors. "Hubert . . . sensible little fel low," chimes in a neighbor...
...Spoilsport radio astronomers on earth have been measuring radio waves from Venus and drawing the conclusion that the planet's surface temperature must be at least 600 °F., which is about as hot as molten lead and much too hot for earth-type life. But they may have been fooling themselves. The earth's strong magnetic field acts as a buffer that deflects most cosmic rays. If Venus has little or no magnetism, the rays must hit the top of its atmosphere, perhaps creating an ionized layer that looks hot when examined by earth's radio...