Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Princeton, at 7 a.m., Harvard's big band piled out of its special train on the weed-covered tracks below the station, began its tootling march across Old Nassau's campus. Out from the dormitories spilled Princeton men in pajamas. A few -ex-G.I.s-carried rifles. They got what they wanted from Harvard's band: Princeton tunes...
Unlike other Crimson coaches, whose main problem is to weed the most promising candidates from a wealth of material, Mikkola is this term virtually stating from scratch. Cross country has been dormant here since 1942 when the Crimson harriers climaxed a record season by downing Yale and Princeton in a triangular meet before folding up shop for the duration...