Word: blight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citation: "You have crowned your career by leading a group of able lawyers in eliciting from the Supreme Court of the United States a direct, unequivocal, sweeping and unanimous decision to remove the stigma and blight of segregation on account of race and color from American public education...
...last vote for governor, would be required. By this week Gore, a Republican of 30 years' standing, had passed out 10,000 petition blanks. ¶ Chairman Brad Sebstad of the Marinette (Wis.) Young Republicans wrote President Eisenhower asking him to take a strong stand against "the loathsome blight of McCarthyism." ¶Wisconsin's ex-Governor Fred R. Zimmerman, 73, the state's ten-term Republican secretary of state, decided not to attend the Milwaukee Young Republican dinner when he heard McCarthy would be the speaker. Said he: "I just don't like...
...Chapman promised the coffeemen: "Our first duty will be to tell American housewives that the [frost blight] reports are true." Mrs. Swanbeck summed up: "The hearts of women beat the same all over the world. We are going to keep our friendship, and it is not going to dissolve in a cup of coffee...
...price of cocoa, has been mainly responsible for the rise in the overall Dow-Jones commodity index, which last week was the highest in three years. The cocoa rise was caused not only by increased demand and bad weather but by the "Swollen Shoot" (a virus disease) cocoa-tree blight in Africa. As the price went from 30? to almost 60? a lb. in a year, the Government considered releasing some of its vast stocks of butter to users of cocoa butter for candy, but gave up the idea, since butter's low melting point would make it impractical...
Tree Doctor. Chas. Pfizer & Co. of Brooklyn has developed a new antibiotic drug* for trees and plants that cures such previously fatal plant diseases as fire blight (in apple and pear trees) and halo blight (in beans). Agrimycin, a compound of streptomycin and terramycin, is absorbed into the plants' systems just as antibiotics penetrate the human blood stream. The drug will be available in quantity by March...