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...Challenge. One canker of doubt, however, is disturbing all the hallelujahs about the glorious new TV season. Its name: The $64,000 Question. The instant, smash success of the quiz show dreamed up by Lou Cowan has brought a flood of imitators promising to give contestants everything from a producing oil well to a quarter of a million dollars. The industry is quivering with the unmistakable impulse of a new "trend." NBC's Weaver, instead of planning new telecasts from Mars or from the bottom of the sea, has been closeted with Question's sponsor (Revlon), promising them...
...would like to make it all unnecessary by learning how to spot in advance the recruit who will go over the hill or sock the skipper. Also, since some bad apples will always get through, it would like to be able to look at each and decide whether the canker of bad conduct can be cut out so that the offender can safely be returned to duty...
...many of her contemporaries Eleanor was a byword for wantonness, in Shakespeare four centuries later a "canker'd grandam"; by the time of Victoria, Charles Dickens thought it sufficient to call Eleanor "a bad woman." It was only as the 20th Century began that Historian Henry Adams took the queen's full measure, and pronounced her "the greatest of all Frenchwomen." Amy Kelly's Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings is the finest attempt, in English, to tell the queen's full story. It is a tale that the queen herself might have gasped...
...happy there. But he went bankrupt, too, and only left the house on Sundays because he couldn't be arrested then. When Craigie died of apoplexy in 1819, his wife stayed on, reading French novels in the front window and watching the beautiful elm trees being eaten up by canker-worms. "Don't molest them," she said. "They are our fellow-worms...
Blister rust symptoms: a circular, yellowish-orange patch or canker, ¼ in. in diameter, appears in the familiar fine-needle cluster of the white pine. The canker matures, in two to four years, into a festering blister, outlined by bile-green and pale yellow rings, exuding small drops of a yellow, poisonous fluid. Wherever this poison touches the bark, black or dark red scars appear. The following year these scars develop into new, white blisters, crammed with spores which the wind carries away for further propagation. The canker grows until the branch, and eventually the tree, sickens and dies...