Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Boultings have succeeded in persuading London itself to act out the crisis as if it were really happening. Their film uses striking documentary detail, a wealth of British character bits; it uses no twists or gimmicks to spoil a logical, harrowing account of how the metropolis tries to head off its doom and at the same time prepares to meet...
...eyes of Texas were upon three of the four top football teams in the country last weekend, and it was quite a weekend. In downtown Dallas, exuberant Texans and holidaying Oklahomans put on so many pre-and post-game celebrations that the Dallas police, without trying to spoil the show, hauled in 452 celebrators in 48 hours. In a day-night doubleheader in mammoth Cotton Bowl, 151,045 spectators also saw some high-class football...
...Heart. The teacher must also know how to organize his course, reminding students of the whole, "pointing out the peaks still to be scaled, the valleys unexplored," as they examine each of the parts. "The last three or four days of teaching can make a good course or spoil it," warns Highet. "Usually they are given up to a mad rush through the last ten experiments, a sketchy outline of the century still to be covered, an earnest but hollow adjuration to 'look over this for yourselves, with special attention to,' or something else of that kind...
...hopes of getting the hand for the Louvre, since the Greek government no longer permits its antique treasures to leave the country, but he did not especially care: "Even if a whole arm was discovered we probably would not want to fit it onto our statue because it would spoil the whole effect. A statue without a head and with only one arm looks rather awkward...
Greeks wanted "Van Flit," as they call him, to remember their gratitude. During the days before his departure, gifts poured into his Grande Bretagne hotel room: rugs, trays, photographs, and a precious pair of cuff links (a gift from Queen Frederika). His harassed wife Helen sighed, "They spoil him so he is going to be impossible to live with." Van Fleet said he was proud to be leaving behind a tautly trained Greek army, "today the finest in this part of the world...