Word: blight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of being taught respect for authority, children in such schools are encouraged to express themselves and their teachers are constantly admonished by their superiors not to blight the young lives entrusted to their care by imposing an adult will...
...because of his role, but through the fine quality of his characterization. Othello's warrior of great strength and fearlessness is also a man of a simple nature that is receptive soil for the seeds of jealousy planted by Iago. Watching Robeson's performance, one can see this jealousy blight the tenderness of his love at the start as in his description of his love to the Duke of Venice, and develop into the towering passion which drives him at the climax to the murder of his wife. To portray the power of this jealousy which is destroying Othello...
...millions of other peasants were doing throughout Russia: fighting a desperate battle of food. The 1942 harvest was in full swing. In southern Russia wheat-threshing machines hummed within earshot of tank battles. Near Stalingrad harvesters toiled around the clock to bring in ripened grain before the Nazi blight grew closer. Flax fields near Kalinin, rye fields around Kuibyshev, the great grain fields waving across the U.S.S.R.'s broad fertile land between northern forest and southern desert into the heart of Asia, all were black with hurrying harvesters. Thousands of new nurseries were opened to free mothers for tractor...
...picture is a little too long, its plot a trifle illogical, but its dialogue can't always get away from the fact that it was adapted from Damon Runyan, and is consequently good. If the omission of the "Harvard Blues" is considered an unpardonable sin, it is the only blight on a good evening's entertainment...
Perhaps the only city in the world without large slum districts, Stockholm was fortunate enough to escape much of the dismal blight characteristic of industrial zones like Pittsburgh and Chicago during the depression...