Word: pest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins is "cautiously optimistic" that three good sprayings will bring the fly under control, but William L. Popham, head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Plant Pest...
Passage of the contradiction-cluttered measure (TIME, April 16) was a bitter defeat for the Eisenhower Administration, which utterly lost control of farm-state Republicans. It was likewise a pest-ridden harvest for U.S. farmers. The bill would establish the Administration's soil bank (much too late in this farming year), but also would restore high, rigid price supports to work at cross purposes with the new program. Said Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson: "The bill would seek to cure the farm problem with the very measures which built up the surpluses, which lost farmers their market...
...Another famed Democratic cartoonist the St. Louis Pest-Dispatch's Daniel Fitzpatrick refused to draw political cartoons in the 1936 campaign after his paper came out for Alf Landon...
...politics, war and religion moiled in the mortar of imagination. Helen of Troy is basically a story of hot pants in high places. The hero, accordingly, is not "godlike Hector" or "great Achilles" but "soft Paris," whom even Helen called a coward. As the part is written, the "pest of Troy" can actually fight like a Trojan, and, as it is played by Jacques Sernas, the "form divine" is so gorgeously muscular that everybody will understand why that prissy old maid, Athena, flew into such a snit about...
...Marianas, the Gonaxis destroyed within two years nearly a million of the 5,000,000 African snails whose ancestors were brought in as emergency food by the Japanese during World War II. When Clausen heard that 5,000 Gonaxis snails had been rounded up on Agiguan for anti-pest assignments on other islands, he put in a bid for a consignment of 200. Currently being fed on a diet of Helix snails in the university laboratories, they will be turned loose in the spring in selected orange and lemon groves from Santa Barbara to San Diego...