Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Negro College Fund was on the Combined Charity list last year, and had attracted some student protest because it favored the segregation of Negroes. "It is apparent," said yesterday's YPH statement, "that the Council purposely changed the name of the Jim Crow weed" this year to deceive students...
...Even after the release of the Smyth report, a publicly available how-to-do-it manual on the breeding and use of atomic energy--originally authorized by the Army, military officials in the atomic weapons program wanted the AEC to classify almost all atomic information. They also wanted to weed out all scientists not meeting rigorous security standards. At the same time, some very able men were quitting their jobs under the AEC because they found existing security gags in compatible with their own conceptions of free scientific development...
...stayed out in the Orient for five years, taking in both China and the Philippines. In between tobacco deals, he found the East had developed considerable interest in basketball. Shepard played a little himself to keep his hand in, and in 1926 he took out enough time from weed-peddling to coach the Chinese Olympic basketball squad...
...truth as far as they were able to weed...
Handyman. In Spokane, Disc-Jockey Robert Swartz, who had offered to do any odd jobs for listeners recognizing a popular tune played backwards, faced the prospect, after 18 people guessed right, of having to roof a house, iron some shirts, mow a lawn, repair a fishpond and weed a strawberry patch...