Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Osmeña, whose Government has sworn to weed out men who collaborated with the enemy, made it plain that his sons would be treated "as others suspected of such dealings." He was asked by reporters if he believed his sons were innocent. Sadly, Father Osmeña replied, "I do not know...
Double enjoyment was the keynote as a weed-shortage frustrate, whose name must forever remain buried in oblivion and the records of the Cambridge Fire Department, blossomed forth in Lowell House Saturday night with an ingenious scheme for getting more smoke out of a smoke...
...farmers and gardeners are better armed than ever before for this year's battles against their prime enemies-insects and weeds. Against insects, the wonder insecticide DDT is scheduled for large-scale Government tests and a limited amount will be available for civilian experiments this year. Against weeds, the No. 1 enemy, which cost farmers as much ($3,000,000,000) as all other pests combined, the prospects are even brighter. Some promising weapons: ¶ A flamethrower. Used mainly on cotton, sugar cane and corn plantations, this tractor-drawn implement spurts a 2,200° flame along the ground...
...Last week news of a sensational new weed killer which may eclipse all these was spreading rapidly among U.S. farmers and suburbanites. It is a synthetic hormone, called 2-4-D* by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which helped develop it. A very dilute dose (one pound of the chemical to 75 gallons of water), when sprayed on the leaves, kills the toughest U.S. weed-the perennial wild morning glory (also called bindweed). It is also deadly to poison ivy, poison oak, sumac, horse nettle, chickweed, thistles, plaintain, dandelions, ragweed. But it is harmless to animals, is not inflammable, does...
...Government chemists: a new weed killer, "2-4-D." Sprayed on a lawn, it kills most of the weeds, leaves the grass unharmed...