Word: vexes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adds lime and fertilizer and grows grass or clover or alfalfa. Gradually the thin, sour forest soil turns into something like chernozem. The well-kept farms of New York State, Pennsylvania and Ohio are now far more fertile than they were when the pioneers (who so vex Vogt) first felled the forest...
...heads for Antarctic regions near South America. But instead of flying south, the most direct route, it heads eastward across the North Atlantic to Europe, then down the African coast and across the South Atlantic. Other birds that migrate long distances take similar detours. All this tends to vex and confuse the ornithologists, who want to know why birds behave that...
...continuing headache on Lend-Lease to vex future relations. The U.S. canceled almost $25 billion, advanced some $650,000,000 for tidying up the rest...
Hardly had Prime Minister Winston Churchill zoomed back from Moscow to announce that the question of Poland and the Balkans would vex Anglo-Russian relations no more, than those relations suffered a new wrench.* This time it came in Iran-traditionally a prospective Russian Lebensraum, traditionally a very tender spot with Britons. For Iran lies like a massive wedge between British India and British-controlled Iraq. It is also the source of much of Britain's Near Eastern...
...that I dream of the day when an English statesman shall arise with a heart too large for England, having courage, in the face of his countrymen, to assert of some suggestive policy-'This is good for your trade; this is necessary for your domination; but it will vex a people hard by; it will hurt a people farther off; it will profit nothing to the general humanity; therefore, away with it!-it is not for you or for me.' When a British minister dares to speak so, and when a British public applauds him speaking, then shall...