Word: sapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oneness. He resented the spread of Communism but was entirely willing to let the whole of Europe go Communist. The U.S. was the biggest force in the world, but what happened elsewhere was none of our business-until the bombs landed on the U.S. Uncle Sam became Uncle Sap in C.D. Batchelor's News cartoons, and the outside world was a seductive harlot in a tight silk dress and a skull's face, labeled "World...
...said Europe was hungry? Just a lot of hogwash for Uncle Sap, said Captain Joseph Patterson's New York Daily News. The News had sent Robert Conway, one of its local men, on a junket to Iceland; he had gone on to Europe on his own. From Rome he sent home a story which the News headlined...
...puckish zephyr danced northward, trailing an unseasonable perfume of spring across the central and maritime provinces. Dandelions bloomed in Hamilton. Three tulips popped up outside Fort Erie's police station; Elgin County farmers got in some early plowing; a Proton farmer tapped some maple trees, found the sap running. At Goderich the courthouse lawn had to be trimmed. Bees and mosquitoes began buzzing around Dundalk. A flock of blackbirds chirped near Truro...
Like a farmer surveying a sugar maple for the right place to cut for sap, Seattle's paunchy, cigar-smoking Promoter Arthur J. Ritchie watches the public with a veiled and contemplative eye. This week Art Ritchie was watching a big one, and the sap bucket was filling up fast. Art Ritchie's newest idea: why not band the nation's Japanese-haters together and put the whole business on a paying basis...
...Ithaca, N.Y., last week Cornell Entomologist William E. Blauvelt announced the development of a unique insecticide designed for flowers alone. The soil around a plant is soaked with a mixture of sodium selenate and water, which penetrates to roots, sap, foliage and buds. Then, says Dr. Blauvelt, "the bug bites the plants and the plants bite back...