Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...camps, CWS prepared a toxoid against botulism, a form of food poisoning which it was feared the Germans might use in Normandy. It developed antibiotics and therapeutic agents against another mysterious, unnamed disease. It discovered a chemical agent to destroy crops (which will have a peacetime use as a weed killer). In an allied project the Navy worked out a plan to spread fatal organisms by mist...
...junta promised to step down when a new President is chosen by popular vote next spring. Meantime they were busy with plans to turn the income from Venezuela's fabulous oil wealth to the people's account through low-cost housing and better social security, and to weed out the grafters from previous regimes...
...lusty Windsor itself, across the river from Detroit, things were even worse. First, a lonely, tipsy man was stabbed and critically wounded on a deserted street for no reason that police could find. Several days later the stabbed body of a mechanic was found in a weed-grown field. Then, within 150 yards of the same spot, the body of Canadian Sergeant Hugh Blackwood Price was found; he, too, had been knifed. Next, a night watchman at a Windsor garage was brutally clubbed to death with a hammer, apparently by would-be robbers...
Labor Force. C.E.D. began by counting noses of the potential postwar labor force. War had made many a strange distortion in labor statistics. Thus big, square-jawed T. G. MacGowan, chairman of C.E.D.'s marketing committee, had to weed from the present labor force of 51.3 million the younger workers who will go back to school, the women who will go back to housework, and the overaged slated (rather arbitrarily) for retirement...
There used to be a weed which was a pest and which would overrun lawns and pastures, etc. It was called "dogfennel." The favorite joke was that the way to get rid of dogfennel was to pour whiskey on it and the Baptists would...