Word: mildew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist Mayor Peppone. One reason for the book's popularity may be that, while to U.S. readers such shenanigans are amusingly exotic, to Frenchmen they are amusingly, and often disturbingly, familiar. There is, for instance, the case of the mayor, the priest and the hearse of Civrac. Scratches & Mildew. In 1935 Father Jean-Rene Lagrave came to the village of Civrac-en-Medoc (pop. 580) in southern France, and took up residence in the parish house beside the beautiful, red-tiled, 12th century church. Plump, pink-cheeked Father Lagrave, 64, played his violin, said his Mass, baptized, married...
...Molotov obligingly agreed. The Western foreign ministers reached at last for their portfolios on Germany and Austria. But Molotov smiled a polite smile. "I crave your indulgence. It so happens I have with me ... another resolution I wish to table." He laid it before the others. If words could mildew, it would have been a deep, miasmic green, for it was the old, empty Soviet proposal for a world-disarmament conference...
...room mansion had been vacant for 20 years. The door was locked when he got there. Moss and mildew flourished on the paneled walls. Water seeping from a blocked gutter had rotted the floors. Fungus grew on ancient banisters. Ivy, snaking through broken windowpanes, writhed in green profusion. Thousands of dead bees littered every corner. Lady Dunbar, erstwhile tidy Maryland housewife, held up a picture frame from which the canvas had long since rotted. "A portrait," she remarked wryly, peering through it, "of the wife of the present baronet...
...parasites and fungi are by no means all of the Agriculture study. "Phony Peach and Peach Mosaic" not only gets to the heart of the annoying fruit virus problem, but also contains some rather caustic remarks about "the phony peach project of 1929." Other chapters of importance include: "Powdery Mildew of Apples," "The Rot That Attacks 2,000 Species," "Stony Pit of Pears," and "Hazards to Onions in Many Areas...
...course, the various problems of subversive activities have caused our own Thomas Dorgan to dig up his dead-letter tommyrot from the dust and mildew and present it again to the faculties to sign on the dotted line or else. Apparently Mr. Dorgan is not willing to be forgotten. But why the teachers should not, in a body, refuse to sign that absurd slip which makes them eat humble pie that a few politicians prepared for them is very puzzling...