Word: blight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaxton and quavery, befuddled Victor Moore (Of Thee I Sing, Louisiana Purchase) have been starred together. It may also be the last: they are considering turning over their respective talents to Hollywood. As a farewell party, Nellie Bly proves a pretty dismal frost; it even casts something of a blight on the guests of honor...
...this is not to deny the important place held by the Boston Symphony in American music. It has a finer tone and greater consistency than any other major ensemble. I do wish, however, to blast the cult of unintelligent Koussevitzky-worship which has become a blight upon the city. The week after week performances of almost any important orchestra are more satisfactory to this viewer and to many others...
...last ballot in Kentucky was hardly counted when the four-year locusts of Republican politics blackened the horizon to blight the victory crops...
...maze of steel rails that stretches for miles along the New Jersey shore across from Manhattan, 8,000 loaded boxcars stood idle last week, waiting for their war freight to be moved to ships. The blight of manpower shortage had moved from New Jersey's tomato canning (TIME, Aug. 30) to an even more critical field...
...linguists with its aptness for this role. The European Governments in Exile have discussed English as a second language to be taught in all Continental schools; the Chinese Government has not revoked its decision to make English the second tongue of China. The British and American Governments may either blight this movement by linking it to condescension, or encourage it by living up to their ideals of freedom...