Word: cankered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...accomplish a nefarious purpose. . . . The honeymoon of this lying, corroding crowd of murderers of character is over. Their swill barrel is empty-they have scraped the bottom of the garbage can. . . . Evans intoxicated himself with megalomaniac dreams of power. ... He has tried bullwhipping, browbeating . . . common ordinary lying . . . but the canker of disappointment gnaws at his soul...
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...
...bleeding canker disease, which appeared in New England ten years ago and makes trees ooze from small fissures, is now being treated by injections like those given to man and animals. A small hole is bored into the trunk, a rubber hose inserted and connected with a slow-seeping bottle of organic chemicals...