Word: blighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since the great potato blight of 1846 packed U.S.-bound Irishmen by the thousands into stinking steerages had the people of Cork seen such seaborne misery. "What's to become of them?" asked one spectator emptily, as he gazed at the puny, battered British landing craft clinging to the Cork wharfside. Strings of ragged laundry hung on her forepeak. Bales, boxes, kiddie cars and prams overflowed from some of her lifeboats. In others, passengers, unable to find space on cluttered decks, sat patiently and nibbled at their meager rations...
...week of rejoicing for those who had passed. They became family heroes, with bright futures as teachers or civil servants. Some were showered with gifts of books and furniture from local shops and factories. But of the thousands who took the tests, only half escaped the blight of failure...
...Chicago, the blight had fallen on Herbert J. Robinson, "The Angel of Broadway," who expanded into four stores after the war with the slogan: "The Angel is spreading his wings." Last week Robinson had a new slogan: "The Angel's wings are clipped." To stir up business, he planned to send airplanes up over Chicago's ballparks, scattering $10 credit slips through the crowds. Elsewhere, other dealers had tried similar stunts in vain. Manhattan's Herman & Ross offered free television sets "with the next 25 cars we sell"-but sold none. Seven Dallas dealers lured...
There was only one small shadow in all that dazzle to blight her joy. Sometime during the ceremonies Eugénie's pet turtle La Reine wandered off in the general direction of the pyramids. It was not found again until after the Empress had left for France...
...foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in Ottawa, balding Eugene Griffin handles many a special job for Colonel Bertie McCormick. Last winter, when the Colonel heard that an un-American blight was mottling the Ivy League, Griffin toured the Harvard, Yale and Princeton campuses. He proved (to the Tribune's satisfaction at least) that the Colonel had heard right. This fall the Trib got around to Dartmouth. When Griffin arrived, notebook in hand and hatchet up his sleeve, he got a cordial welcome. President John Sloan Dickey had reserved him a room at the Hanover Inn, and offered...