Word: blight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge is the third of 92 cities which will view the program, designed to arouse public support for the problem of "crowding, blight, and urban decay...
...telling city consumers that high supports are the reason for high food prices, the Eisenhower Administration has set "city against country and country against city." Actually, contended Adlai, in an astonishing defense of a support program leading to continuing surpluses: "Abundance is not a blight but a blessing." Farm production can remain high without harm; surpluses can be distributed where they are needed through a bigger school-lunch program, a food stamp plan for the needy, a world food bank...
...Biesterfeld (a former I.G. Farben representative) was long acclaimed as one of the happiest in Europe. Sentimental Dutch editors were known to refer to their conjugal life at the royal residence as "the idyl at Soestdijk," and even the fact of still another generation without male heirs failed to blight the general Dutch satisfaction in the rulers...
...Godot very often seems ghostly. The best symbolic works, from Moby Dick or Don Quixote down, never wear their symbolism on their sleeves; the symbolism brings added depth and resonance to an always three-dimensional creation. Godot lacks any large creativeness; Beckett suffers a little himself from the blight that constitutes his theme and subject-matter...
...costly and disastrous experiment with forest-belt planting. His notions about crop rotation cost the country in one season as much grain as would have been produced by 6,000,000 acres. He refused to introduce hybrid corn, the most spectacular practical achievement of Western plant genetics. The blight of Lysenkoism even touched far-distant sciences, including chemistry and physics, where Marxist dogmatists denounced useful and well-proved principles as tainted with Western error...