Word: blight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years after the victory that was to have brought freedom from fear and want, men were as afraid of each other as ever, and most were in want. Endlessly branching plans for the world's regeneration were stiff with bureaucratic blight. To find postwar hopes alive with real sap, the world had to look in odd places-for instance, Hiroshima...
...Samaritan," but whether her unbounded love for the masses has been repaid in kind is open to question. Eva has few close friends and many bitter enemies in the land of her conquest. Even the most ardent Peronistas are divided as to whether she is a boon or a blight. She constantly interferes in state affairs, and certain it is that her highhanded palace intrigues have earned Perón many an enemy he might not otherwise have had. Last fall Eva threw the Argentine Senate into a furor when she charged into a sacrosanct closed session to demand immediate appointment...
...steel shortage has cut deep into the production of big corporations. For many a small manufacturer it has been a worse misfortune; some have been forced to shut up shop completely. To head off this blight to business, the Senate's Small Business committee is trying to find out why small buyers can get no steel. What it found out in hearings last week was that little businessmen can buy steel-if they are willing to pay fabulous prices...
...stubborn, belligerently neutral Eire had feasted while the rest of the world fought. But last week the feast was over and the grim specter of famine lowered over Eire. Newspaper headlines were black with pessimism, as Eire's editors recalled the great Famine of 1847, when a blight had turned Ireland's young potato plants to withered stalks, leaving a million Irish dead of starvation, and sending a million-odd more to the green fields of America.* In that grim year, reported the official Census of Ireland, "starving people lived on the carcasses of diseased cattle, dogs...
...terms go, the catalogue has grown in thickness and quality back to 1940 dimensions. Furthermore, it celebrates the return to business as usual by reviving the prewar practise of bracketing courses omitted for one year, but to be resumed the following year. Only the summer term remains as a blight upon an otherwise noteworthy issue of the Official Register of Harvard University...