Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nigel Molesworth, no weed, cad, dirty rotter or funk, is the curse of St. Custard's, or so he claims. St. Custard's is a very English boys' school, built by a madman in Gothic tempered by Byzantine, and run by a monstrous regiment of headmaster, masters and matrons, against all of whom Nigel is plotting revolution. He proclaims: "When we arrive in our helicopters we shall take over the skool and feed all with cream. FREE THE SLAVES...
...York City's public library there are 3,500 how-to books, 250 on cooking alone, both for the gourmet (Escoffier Cook Book) and the not-so-rich and not-so-particular (The Can-Opener Cookbook). Gardeners can pore over Perennials Preferred, Rockeries, Principles of Weed Control, animal lovers over such volumes as How to Tempt a Fish, How to Live with a Cat. There are dozens of books on How to Buy a House and how to make it better. There is even one on How to Make Sense...
...Weed, Byron...
...unit tactics, Army logistics and administration), gives 40 hours to military history and current U.S. military problems. Hard put to assimilate this year's crop of 15,200 R.O.T.C. graduates, the Army is asking Congress to approve a 8,700-man boost in officer strength, also plans to weed out some overage officers...
...false positives are bad because they breed fear instead of allaying it. The researchers are working on refinements by which they hope to weed them...