Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dropped because they are outmoded are another 500 items. Mostly herbals, these included cypripedium (lady's slipper), once used as a sedative in hysteria and neuralgia; diabetes weed, and corn smut (derived from a fungus), which stimulated uterine contractions in childbirth. Carried over from edition to edition, of course: quack grass...
...Christmas: "Tiny Tim is a weed...
...shovel and patted rain-soaked earth around the base of a newly-planted western hemlock. With this symbolic gesture, he dedicated the company's new three-story $600,000 central research laboratory building. Said Zellerbach: "Three decades ago, the western hemlock was considered little more than a forest weed...
...with the remnants of the pro champions. With Notre Dame's Ralph Guglielmi calling the shots (and pitching passes with midseason accuracy), with Baylor's L. G. ("Long Gone") Dupre slipping like quicksilver through the Brown secondary, and with Ohio State's tiny (139 lbs.) Tad Weed booting precise placements, the collegians outplayed the pros in every department...
...Recently the U.S. Chamber of Commerce held a meeting with Japanese tax officials, hoping to work out a compromise. But the businessmen got only a vague promise that Finance Minister Ichimada would "study the situation." Most think that Ichimada will use the new tax rules to weed out the U.S. business community in Japan by applying them leniently or harshly depending on the individual businessman...