Word: unspoilt
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...unspoilt beauty-aquamarine waters, coral reefs, lush forests and white sands-that lures foreign adventurers to these temperate parts has already hosted man-made destruction. It experienced the blood and thud of modern warfare when Japanese and Allied Forces fought crucial battles here during World War II. Still, outsiders don't play much of a part in the traditional lifestyle of fishing, gardening and carving that has sustained these Melanesian people of the islets and lagoons. Christian missionaries, as well as some shady proselytizers, have founded peaceful flocks. Time lolls about in this clime, news occasionally wafts in. Now they...
...cities of this country depressed up to their eyebrows despite highways unlimited, it makes no economic sense and even less conservation sense to support a program that will cost the Federal Government millions of dollars and do damage to the one outstanding feature of the states in question -their unspoilt beauty-to bring some mythical industry to some nonexistent city. If the ports of New York City and Boston are dying economically, it must be from lack of use, not from lack of highways...
...With visitors from Ivy and Cottage and Tiger Inn he played the 'nice, unspoilt, ingenuous boy,' very much at ease and quite unaware of the object of the call. When the fatal night arrived early in March, he slid smoothly into Cottage with Alec Connage and watched his suddenly neurotic class with much wonder...
...final decision, because in Colette's world there is none. Her characters drift on the sea of their instincts, and each decisive action shifts only a little the burden of their unfulfilled lives. In the end, Renee writes to Maxime: "Seek far from me that youth, that fresh, unspoilt beauty, that faith in the future and yourself, in a word, the love that you deserve, the love that once upon a time I could have given you, Don't seek me out. I have just enough strength to flee from you. If you were to walk in here, before...
What happens to the unspoilt youth when he gets to college has moved Sir Walter Moberly, ex-professor of philosophy at Birmingham University and one of Britain's top educators, to write a book called The Crisis in the University. Britons have decided that it is one of the most thoughtful, responsible critiques of the British university since John Henry Newman's Idea of a University. By last week Sir Walter's blast had whirled the learned dust along academic corridors in England and made eddies in the intellectual weeklies...