Word: devours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should rue that infamous day when an inconsidered and rash Act of the Corporation created the annex across the Common. Like Frankenstein's, this hideous monster now threatens to turn and devour its master and creator. Tell the man whose house is on fire to be calm, but urge not temperance on me while this grief blot still remains on the Harvard escutcheon! I demand the immediate suppression of the R----e Table on the grounds of indecency. R. Llewelyn Brill...
...sympathy has a double-edged pathos now that the Muscovite winners stand to lose so much. As a political novel, The Don Flows Home to the Sea has almost ceased to have meaning. Though they are scarcely 20 years gone, its violent events, against the vast implacabilities which devour that same earth now, have the minute, archaic beauty of actions seen through a reversed telescope: Cossack fighting was an affair of horses, hard riding and sabers. But as a plain story of a man, a family, and a people during war, this novel has the high, nerved vividness that such...
...year ago this week Benito Mussolini entered the war crying: "Our conscience is absolutely clear!" So saying, he staked his country's independence in a game of war for Empire. He lost the game. For although the Bullfrog of the Mediterranean might devour lesser organisms (except those, like Greece, that stuck in his throat), he was firmly locked in the alligator-jaws of Nazi conquest. Were he a man to be amused by his own misfortune, he might laugh gutturally at the paradox of his position: If his ally wins the war, Italy may rule an empire of sorts...
Downstairs, rapt scullery maids devour its spicy morsels; so, upstairs, does many a lady of the house. Farmers, laborers and millworkers cherish its sinful revelations; so also do royalty, Cabinet ministers, tycoons. Without News of the World, Sunday morning in Britain would lack something as familiar as church bells...
...beetles spread year by year to surrounding territory. Since quantities of U.S. nursery stock are grown in the most beetled area of New Jersey, the insects would soon have infested the whole U.S. but for a firm Federal quarantine. Each year on the eastern seaboard the beetles now devour millions of dollars' worth of foliage, fruits, flowers, vegetables. They spend over three-fourths of their year of life as grubs, damaging lawns, links and pastures by eating grass roots...