Word: blight
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...usually belongs to James Garner. He looks like a hat model with swollen glands. At least Jason Robards--his tubercular, alcoholic partner--is lean, but I suspect that's because he's been so busy prostituting himself in Hollywood extravaganzas. Robert Ryan, though un-mustached, is as big a blight to the scenery...
...Your Boats. Aware that the blight was coming, Alaska's state government limited fishing. The number of legal fishing days was cut this year and 600,000 more salmon than the state had originally planned were thus allowed to escape upstream in the tributaries of Bristol Bay to procreate the catches of future years. Alaskan fishermen, who caught 64 million salmon last year, will take in no more than 24 million in all of 1967. For Bristol Bay fishermen, this means an average income for the season of $1,320, or a meager fifth of what they make...
...long, elm-cast shadows that once drifted across campuses and evoked dreams of Main Street, U.S.A., are fading-the victims of Dutch elm disease. Caused by a fungus and carried by bark beetles, the incurable blight was first detected in the U.S. in 1930 and has since spread inexorably across the nation, leaving unsightly stumps in its path. Although most American elms seem doomed, there is now hope that a hardy new breed of elm will rise to take their place...
Despite the sudden flurry of interest in the Negro's plight, the spate of committees ordered to probe the ghettos' blight, and the rash of ratiocination in the press, Young warns that "time is running out." Not only for the Negro moderates, who are having more and more trouble persuading the slum dwellers not to turn to violence, but for the rest of society...
...treason" in granting Algerian independence, France's Georges Bidault, 67-twice a postwar Premier, nine times Foreign Minister-took several large steps closer to home, established residence in Belgium and promised a return to France soon. In the meantime, he vowed to say and do nothing to blight Belgian-French relations. When reporters asked if he would approach De Gaulle for an amnesty, Georges replied grandly: "I, Bidault, approach that wretch?" Besides, he said, "to have amnesty one must first have been pronounced guilty. For what it is worth, I have never been convicted...