Word: weeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boot camp when one man broke the rules, our chief used to restrict the whole company. . . . In persuading Congress to tighten the on-the-job training law, the Veterans Administration has followed the same line, penalizing the majority in order to weed out offenses committed by a small minority...
Vulnerability of a plant to chemical killing depends on many qualities, and no two species are exactly alike. Agricultural chemists were studying crop plants and their commonest weed enemies from every possible angle. They were looking for the key difference which would make weeds vulnerable to some chemical which did not hurt the crop. Chances looked good...
Suburbanites battle the dogged dandelion with a chemical- 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid). Last week dirt farmers cheered its weed-killing feats. It had proved effective against bindweed, a wild morning-glory that is the worst weed in western grain fields. 2,4-D killed bindweed without hurting the grain...
...toted cases of liquor aboard, made the lives of Negro stewards miserable; got off the dirty-joke ship "news" paper which must have startled Russia's silent correspondent A. M. Khoklov, a captain in the Soviet navy. Baldwin's recommendation: a permanent accreditation committee of newsmen, to weed out the unfit...
...they have acted in everything from Dostoevsky to Noel Coward, from high drama to sheer drivel. They have long been the most famous stage couple in the world-and year in, year out, probably the best box office. On the road, even when it had dwindled into a weed-choked path, they have never slipped. A week before O Mistress Mine opened on Broadway, it had a prodigious advance sale...