Word: peste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of the $10 million the U.S. citrus industry spends annually on pest control goes toward fighting the Helix aspersa, a common orchard variety of snail. The Helix feeds indiscriminately on leaves, twigs and fruit. Up to now, the industry has relied on expensive chemical dusts and sprays; unfortunately, they must be applied almost constantly and they are only moderately effective. Last week Curtis P. Clausen of the University of California's Department of Biological Control announced plans to fight the Helix with one of its own kind: the Gonaxis kibweziensis, commonly known as the cannibal snail...
...mankind. He had no future. He disdained it. He was a force . . . He walked frail, insignificant, shabby, miserable-and terrible in the simplicity of his idea calling madness and despair to the regeneration of the world. Nobody looked at him. He passed on unsuspected and deadly, like a pest in a street full...
Thus Joseph Conrad, in The Secret Agent (1907), gave a prophetic portrait of that now familiar pest of the West-the Communist espionage agent...
...female screw worm, a serious warm-country cattle pest, mates only once. Dr. A. W. Lindquist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture told a Tampa meeting of entomologists how this determined monogamy may be the screw worm's undoing...
Senator McCarthy at this time told Mr. Adams that Mr. Schine was of no help to the committee, but was interested in photographers and getting his pictures in the paper, and that things had reached the point where Mr. Schine was a pest...