Word: clog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once one of the nation's most finished second-story men, was arrested (for the 32nd time) in Los Angeles. His crime: milking pay telephones. He had been extracting $10 a day from 100 telephones by plugging their coin-return slots with paper, letting nickels, dimes and quarters clog up inside until he came to collect them...
Despite frenzied attempts by the Arab world to clog the machinery of the United Nations, the General Assembly voted last Saturday to partition Palestine and give the Jewish people a homeland. The thirty-three-to-thirteen ballot brought truculent howls from the delegates of six Arab states and the threat of a Holy War to preserve the sacred sterility of Palestine's soil. With the passage of this first important legislative decree the United Nations reaches a vital turning point in its history...
...chemical just put on the market is an artificial frost for potatoes. When late potatoes reach maturity, farmers pray for frost to kill the vines. If it does not come, a lot of evils may. Potatoes grow lopsided, bumpy. Juicy vines clog the digging machinery, and blight spores from their still green leaves may infect the harvest...
...polyglot mass of Russians, Frenchmen, Poles, Belgians, Netherlander, Italians, Serbs, Bulgars, Greeks threatened to clog and millstone the victors in broken Germany (see FOREIGN NEWS). They were going home or escaping war or just falling in with the vague, aimless movement of the mass...
...warships sent into action, only two escaped without hurt: the 34 that limped home, broken and smoking, would clog their repair yards for months while U.S. planes hammered at them to put them out of business for keeps...