Word: weeds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...studying man as if he were a horse instead of a human being with a spirit . . . We see nature as violated, when modern man as the result of medical propaganda goes through life fearing death [and] ends up as a vitamin-taking, antacid-consuming, barbiturate-sedated, aspirin-alleviated, weed-habituated, benzedrine-stimulated, psychosomatically-diseased, surgically-despoiled animal...
Residents of La Fayette, Ind. (pop. 35,000) had never seen anything quite like it. One day they saw men unloading a truck at a weed-grown lot. Six days later a trim new two-bedroom house stood there, complete with shrubs and fresh-laid concrete walks. Most startling of all was the price: $5,750, including...
Vern Miller, also of the Globe, heaped another load of the weed of praise on the Valpey system, calling the upset a "staggering and glittering offensive victory . . . certainly the most spectacular Harvard decision over a major opponent in a decade . . . one of hope for Collegiate football's future in New England...
Except for a fine old stucco church on the weed-grown plaza, the sleepy rubber town of Cametá has only two noteworthy buildings: a nondescript, 10-ft.-square structure housing a brand-new well, and a little white municipal health center. Both are the work of a joint U.S.-Brazilian organization called Servico Especial de Saude Publica (Special Public Health Service...
Superintendent John C. Tindall, who had taken over after the first killing, made no excuses. He had done his best to clean up the filth, weed out the crooked, underpaid staffers, refurbish inadequate and worn-out equipment. But he could do no more in the face of apathetic, economy-minded state legislators. Said Tindall bitterly: "More criminals have been made in this institution in the past 30 years than in any institution in the United States...