Word: spoiledness
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Though Mike is free of handicapping emotional problems now, he was once beset by self-doubts. The only child of a very poor Jewish family in Chelsea, Mass., he ran away at 17 from a mother who spoiled him and a father who was forceful but "kinda scary." He became...
Now Papa Doc has apparently had intimations of mortality. In his Independence Day speech early this month, he observed that Caesar Augustus was only 19 when he inherited the Roman Empire. "I will give power to youth when the time comes," said Duvalier, "because the future belongs to youth." By...
With words too, one must go outside the frame of exposition in order to properly understand their limits and meanings. There are other forms of word-use as valuable as exposition that deal with different, not worthless, problems. Exposition is spoiled when it must strain to deal with every kind...
Plainly, the road toward East-West detente is not exactly a high-speed expressway. It is vulnerable, moreover, to the sort of old-fashioned petty nationalism that is still able to poison relations between states. Last week, after a needless spasm of local hatreds had spoiled the atmosphere, Yugoslav President...
Harvard's JV hockey team spoiled the debut of a team of Boston Bruins Old-Timers prepping for a charity contest with the Braintree Hawks as Jimmy Thomson and Paul Sweeney each scored two goals to lead the Crimson to a 5-2 victory.