Word: spoiling
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...reception that followed, Khrushchev proclaimed: "Peace is inevitable. War will not help us reach our goal-it will spoil it. We must rest on the position of coexistence and nonintervention, and eventually Communism will be in force all over the earth." Offering toast after toast, Khrushchev seemed in high spirits. "They say that in the Congo the Soviet Union was beaten," he cried. "We say those who laugh last laugh best...
...other key games, alert Army defeated fading Syracuse, 9-6. Spotting Navy ten points, Duke rallied in the second half to spoil the undefeated record of the midshipmen 19-10. In the Big Eight, Iowa State continued the revolt against long-time champion Oklahoma (TIME, Nov. 7) by winning 10-6 for its first victory over the Sooners since...
...veto the suggestion because they think the girls' bedrooms are too small and too messy for entertaining. They may easily point out how unfitting it would be for girls in curlers and wrappers to wander around the corridors of an open house. Further, some girls may object that men spoil the peace and quiet...
...complex plot is focused on Marina, a Bolshy bitch who is married to Globov, a public prosecutor, and model of Soviet Russia's successful man; she is also probably the mistress of Karlinsky, the philosophizing public defender. Marina procures an abortion for no reason except that motherhood might spoil her figure. Mad with rage when his wife brutally tells him of this, Globov smashes everything in their apartment-only one birthday present, a bust of "The One." "The Master" (i.e., Stalin), being miraculously preserved. In revenge, Globov sends a doctor he suspects of having performed the abortion...
...Theater next month, they molt easily from character to character, life to literature, now enacting a missile scientist talking on the telephone with his mother, now dropping a bit of dialogue between two Saganesque lovers ("This has been the cheapest, tawdriest affair of my life." "Shh, you'll spoil...