Word: pest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There used to be a weed which was a pest and which would overrun lawns and pastures, etc. It was called "dogfennel." The favorite joke was that the way to get rid of dogfennel was to pour whiskey on it and the Baptists would...
...long, cool, wet spring favored aphid reproduction and killed off many of its natural enemies (notably ladybugs). The aphid, or plant louse, a squashy insect usually about the size of a pinhead, is not rated as a big-league pest in the U.S. But its Ohio holiday was only a sample of what the aphid might do if it were let alone. If all her offspring lived, a single female could girdle the earth with her progeny in a single season...
...Worst Pest...
...inevitable drunk shows up and, slobbering, offers to buy you a drink, insists on your listening to his tales of what he did in the last war or what his cousin is doing in this one. He hangs onto you for at least an hour. He is the worst pest of all. . . . [A RETURNED VET] Detroit...
...Germans had hoped to make another Stalingrad of stately, romantic Budapest. The city was a natural fortress in the first major defense line of Germany's deep backyard. The heights of Buda, rising some 770 feet above the Danube, commanded the approaches to Pest. The Germans had time to rim the city with strong points. The 950-foot river itself was a formidable last ditch. The Germans had men and machines. The Russians had to bring both over a tenuous supply line that looped far around the Carpathians...