Word: motheaten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disease is that it chooses to kill trees which give New England's countryside much of the beauty people find in it. Towns like Concord, which has lost 130 trees in the last three years, and Lexington, which has lost nearly 400, are beginning to look ragged and motheaten without their once plentiful elms; and they will eventually look nude, for there is no cure for Dutch Elm Disease...
...career by the bluest beard in public life. In a recent campaign, his enemies spread a rumor that Shivers wears a toupee. Mrs. Shivers disposed of that with a bright remark: "If he does, he'd better get a new one, because this one is getting motheaten...
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