Word: spoiler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title hopes jarred last week by Dartmouth, the Crimson football team sinks to the role of spoiler, as it tackles the University of Pennsylvania, a twelve point favorite and unquestionably the most powerful eleven in the Ivy League. The Quakers, fresh from their astounding tie with Navy, have the speed, depth, and experience to make the Crimson's final bid for the first division a failure...
...year, the varsity solidified its growing claim towards a berth at the NCAA finals on March 13. B.C., while it has no chance for an invitation, was touted as one of the most improved teams in the East and a sextet that could have acted the part of spoiler tonight. The Crimson's victory could hardly have been more impressive and will speak well for it when the Selections Committee makes its choice...
...tonight's contest, at 8:30 in the I.A.B., the Crimson can resume its spoiler role. Last week it administered to Princeton its only home league loss, and came close to upsetting Yale Saturday. Dartmouth must rule as the definite favorite, however, on the basis of its prior 74 to 59 win at Hanover, although that contest was played before a very partisan Dartmouth crowd...
Whenever men get together to build a united Europe, they must first reckon with that great spoiler of dreams, the French National Assembly. Last week the Assembly debated the bold plan for a Common Market (TIME, Jan. 28) that would give six Western European nations a tariff-free trading area nearly as big as the U.S. Premier Guy Mollet, so optimis tic at first, was shaken and depressed. Former Premier Pierre Mendès-France, playing shrewdly on France's century-old fear of German domination, had belabored the proposal in language and innuendo all but identical to that...
...nation would want to leave Geneva in the role of spoiler of the world's hope. The public's expectation would be at best a spur to agreement; at worst, a temptation to the participants to show progress where there was in fact none...