Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Football experts who picked Dartmouth as one of the top teams in the Ivy league before the season began are currently wondering who slipped the loan weed into their tea leaves. Going into this afternoon's contest with the Crimson at the Stadium, the star-studded Big Green has yet to win a game in four attempts. And should Harvard prevail today, these self-same experts will probably confine their future picking to pockets...
...about 100 miles] from land." But the nearest islands at that point were the Azores, 600 miles to the north. A few days later the Santa Maria, Niña and Pinta ran into an oceanful of good omen. Soft breezes, another boatswain bird and a sea of floating weed with a live crab still enmeshed in it pleased everyone, and "the best sailors went ahead to sight land first." Actually, the lonely little formation had not yet reached mid-Atlantic: boatswain birds wander hundreds of miles from land and the seaweed was the Sargasso...
...goof ball is not a marijuana smoker (weed-head, viper, tea-hound, herb). A goof ball is a nemmie (from Nembutal, trade name for a certain barbiturate), Geronimo, bomber, or any other barbiturate or sleeping pill...
...McCarthy, vice president in charge of traffic, who was cited by President Truman for his war work in the Office of Defense Transportation. McCarthy was fired for refusing to fire Quinlan. Said the New Haven: the "separations" were not voluntary; they were made to cut costs and to weed out those who "are unresponsive to ... management." Said Dumaine: the dismissals were "simply ... part of a program designed to put the road on its feet and to rebuild its credit...
Agriculture is now investigating reports that ragweed, the terror of hayfever victims, is also developing a taste for 2,4-D. "Chemical weed control," a spokesman concluded wearily, "is another field in which agricultural science must always look for something...