Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stood a tall, grey man whose daring dancing had once shocked the purists and made history in the dance. Ted Shawn, 63, is at home before any audience, but this audience was his special home-Jacob's Pillow, in the Berkshires near Lee, Mass., where he turned a weed-grown farm into the hub and Mecca of dancing in North America. Shawn introduced what he called "the apex of our achievement in presenting dancers at Jacob's Pillow," the Royal Danish Ballet. Then the Danes took over and proved...
...West, Dulles continued, should be willing to grant a respite, if Russia was willing to pay the price. Essentially, the democracies want to apply a weed killer to Communist expansion and subversion of democratic systems. If the Communists truly desire peaceful coexistence, they would prove it by enforcing the Litvinoff Agreement of 1933 to terminate the international activities of the Communist Party. A second proof of Russian sincerity would be the reunification of Germany as a sovereign democratic state-neither "neutralized" nor satellite. A third proof would properly be the honoring of Soviet commitments, taken at Yalta, to permit self...
Crocker Snow '26, a trustee of the Aviation Foundation, remarked yesterday that the civil secretariat of the Defense Department is enthused about the prospects of such a program. Undergraduate training would provide better prospective flyers at a lower cost to the government and would weed out the incompetents early, Snow said. "The regular admirals and generals, however, probably won't think too much of the idea," he added...
...House: ¶Approved an overhauling of the State Department's Foreign Service branch to weed out "deadwood" and to attract top-grade men. One attraction: an educational allowance for the children of Foreign Service officers stationed overseas. Cost...
...Weed or Wayward Man. Williams has included the major common variants used in different Latin American countries, often had to trace English and Spanish words back to their Latin origins to make sure they are exact equivalents. Instead of translating hierba merely as grass, he lists dozens of botanical variations as well as a few related colloquialisms. Mala hierba can mean weed or it can mean a wayward young man. Hierba amargosa means ragweed, hierba amarilla means an oxeye daisy, and so on down to hierba velluda meaning bulbous buttercup...