Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speed in the Studio. At Porcella's urging, Zlatoff-Mirsky came hurrying out to Hollywood. He pronounced the pictures in excellent condition-while at the same time warning that another year of neglect would ruin them forever-took them away, and restored them all with "chemical solvents" in three weeks. Since proper restoration of deteriorated paintings can require as much as a year apiece, Zlatoff-Mirsky's speed was astonishing. At Lawyer Giesler's press conference, he refused to show the actual pictures but passed photographs about. There were also pictures of the most happy Folio himself...
...outcome of a soccer game is always in doubt, and the better team does not necessarily win. All it takes to score a goal is the one big play, by an individual in a split second. One isolated effort can ruin a team that completely dominates play the rest of the time. Inside John Hedreen scored after 3:10 had gone by in the Yale game on a fine, alert shot that evaded Bulldog goalie Andy Block. The Elis fought the Crimson on equal terms in the second period and were in control for the last two periods...
...master tribe of willowy African giants named the Watutsis. The Watutsis had been for four centuries the lords of the Land of the Mountains of the Moon, and there seemed little reason why they should not continue to be so. But last week, this convenient arrangement lay in ruin. "Belgium did a very bad business," sighed Premier Gaston Eyskens as he surveyed the latest of Belgium's colonial disasters, "when it took over Ruanda-Urundi...
Coal and Foxholes. Today the ancient school, which the Nazis corrupted and the Allies bombed, is a moral as well as a physical ruin. Across the burned-out front of its baroque main building (on Karl Marx-Square) are red banners blazing dubious slogans. Sample: "Friendship with the Soviet Union insures peace, protects freedom and provides a better life for all." For 185 teachers and 13,800 students, contrast with the vibrant past is painful. Leipzig is the largest East German University-and the saddest. It is an outright Communist trade school...
...done it!" chided the cleaning woman. "That's what you're supposed to say to the serving ladies. Keep that nonsense up and you'll ruin yourself." Vag hummed quietly again. "You know," she said, "what you need is some nice girl who'll make you study and fix your tapes for you." Vag's tape murmured vague assent...