Word: boon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Technology has been a boon to the silverfish. This swift, slithery, scaly insect, less than half an inch long, is an old inhabitant of forests, where it nests under stones and in the bark of dead trees. But it has recently migrated to the city in prodigious numbers because of its fondness for a modern product: rayon. It also likes linen, starched cotton, flour. Unlike the moth, which feeds slowly, the silverfish is a ravenous eater, can make lacework of a shirtfront in a few hours. It is also very hard to starve out ; a well-stuffed silverfish...
...manager of a steel mill in the English Midlands. Postwar retrenchment shut the mill, freed Fodor. The Manchester Guardian liked his occasional letters from Middle Europe, asked for cables, soon hired the shy, whip-smart, "relentlessly honest" little man as a fulltime correspondent. Thereby, the Guardian conferred a major boon on U.S. foreign correspondence...
...Landing? A solid spell of just such anti-Nazi weather, allowing full use of Allied air power, would be the greatest boon the invasion could receive. But good weather or bad, it was clear that something had to be done, and soon. An undertaking like the invasion of France cannot stop; it must go forward, keep moving...
...Carl Koller, 86, eye specialist, first doctor to use cocaine as a local anesthetic; in Manhattan. In 1884 Koller collaborated with the late, great Sigmund Freud in testing cocaine's influence on muscular strength, digressed to try the drug on an animal's eye, soon demonstrated the boon in many operations...
...They are known as the "Fundamentalists." Their leader, 71-year-old Joseph W. Musser, did not deny that he had five wives, 20 children. Other Fundamentalists were said to have as many as six wives, 33 children. Musser predicted that polygamy will some day be permitted in U.S. as boon to surplus women who would otherwise be forced into prostitution...