Word: blight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find a group of "white Caucasians" (both conditions a pure accident of birth), holier-than-thou, Nazi-principled bigots going far out of their way to hound a single family, of admittedly good reputation, into court for the purpose of driving them out of their home, is a vicious blight to our hope for the future...
...chemical just put on the market is an artificial frost for potatoes. When late potatoes reach maturity, farmers pray for frost to kill the vines. If it does not come, a lot of evils may. Potatoes grow lopsided, bumpy. Juicy vines clog the digging machinery, and blight spores from their still green leaves may infect the harvest...
...last week the whole island was affected. Even trains couldn't run. Said Director Antonio Melis of Florence's Entomological Center: "It's a biological phenomenon unknown in history. . . ." Unless the blight were checked within a fortnight, the locusts would develop wings, blitz the estimated 200,000-ton grain crop, sorely needed for relief. And, warned Professor Melis, should the locusts survive into July, when they lay eggs, next year's generation might "completely extinguish the island's plant life...
...yield, higher by 5,000,000 bushels than the previous record crop of 1931. But Department of Agriculture men-not to speak of the always apprehensive farmers-had their fingers crossed. Drought, a heavy hailstorm, prolonged cold could seriously cut the crop. Mid-continent farmers who had escaped the blight of greenbugs that had ruined large acreages in Oklahoma and Texas now prayed for warm days that would bring out the brown-specked ladybugs to chase away the greenbugs...
...novel is simply a chronicle of the lives of three generations of d'Alverys from World War I to World War II-their loves, hates, ambitions, marital alliances and misalliances, financial crises, the problems of a sugar economy (among them: blight and the OPA), and politics (Huey Long appears in pajama-clad person...