Word: blight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...botanists then believed that the potato blight was caused by fungi, which were thought to grow only on dead things, never on living plants. But when the fungus was at last proved guilty, botanists opened their eyes wide. They found fungi...
...Social justice for groups and individuals to end the blight of the " 'mass man,' who is conscious of no status spiritual or social, who is a mere item in the machinery of production, and who easily develops the herd psychology...
Last week Italy's season of war was still in its driest blight. The Greeks continued to storm strategic heights, and continued to succeed in taking them. The R. A. F., easing off from its withering missions in Libya, intensified them in Greece. When the Italians attempted night counterattacks, they lost more ground than they had had in the first place...
...British did not deny using the cards. They said that the leaves had been used to set fire to military stores standing in open dumps, in arsenals, in railway cars on sidings, in trucks, or in woods. Sincerely regretful of the costly blight which had come upon Propaganda Minister Goebbels' roses, and refraining from indiscriminate bombing of Berlin despite urgent popular pull for it, the R. A. F. further pointed out that it had bombed scores of authentic military objectives, such as potential jumping-off spots for an invasion, railroad centres like Hamm, Ehrang (near Trier), Osnabr...
...sins of omission which have led to the present debacle. We proclaimed the golden vision of a League of Nations. ... It was a moral, if you will, a religious issue. There was a precious opportunity for church and synagogue to champion an indispensable plan for removal of the blight of war from the earth. But the record speaks for itself. We permitted politicians and narrow-visioned isolationists to destroy the only possible good effect of the World War and have thus nullified the sacrifice of ten million lives...