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Touched off by the Canadian Red spy eases, a mounting suspicion of anything left of center has finally shifted into hysterical overdrive with the recent presidential proclamation of a loyalty test for all government employees. The order is couched in stark terms of treason and sedition and proposes to weed out the disloyal elements in the Civil Service. Hopefully flavored with the axiom that all the men serving a government must be faithful, the current tests seem to be the product of a bitter witch hunt rather than the outgrowth of natural security measures...
...back under the care of the municipal government. An advisory committee made up for the most part of prominent Cambridge antiquarians assists the city officials. Now the gates are locked, the stones looked after, the grass is cut in the summer and next year they are planning to use weed killer...
Disaster struck in a finger snap. The sleek, shiny Constellation tumbled drunkenly across a swampy, weed-covered islet on an arm of the Fergus River not two miles from the airfield. The left wing struck first, then the nose, which broke off and threw the pilot and copilot clear. The rest of the plane hurtled on, scattering its guts, plowing a deep rut in the mushy land. Watchers on Rineanna heard a thunderous crash as the Star hit, saw the flare of the gasoline.fire reach high into the night...
...thread of a story as it follows the overlanders in their struggles to get the. cattle safely past crocodiles, swollen rivers, poison weed, dry water holes, stampedes...
Next to John Harvard, nature's greatest heritage to the Yard is the squirrel. Everyone loves the healthy, frolicking animals except a callous few who wantonly litter the steps of Widener, Sever, and Emerson with countless cigarette butts where uneducated squirrels are liable to find and sample the "filthy weed." Already small, Harvard squirrels are becoming alarmingly stunted as a result of this carelessness, and grey-haired mothers are frantic over the sudden shrinkage in squirrel stature. In response to a Crimson survey, one mother waspishly noted that the Yard was beginning to look like a trash heap and that...