Word: infestation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have known for 25 years. "It will be a part of history," said Maria. "This is one way we can participate." In October, soon after residents learned of the planned annihilation, Lutheran pastor Karen Parsons hosted an art day at her church, which sits in the heart of the infested area. About 70 adults and children made sketches and paintings of the tree-lined neighborhood as a form of catharsis. The pictures may be used in greeting cards to raise money for tree replanting in the spring--this time with varieties the beetle is not known to infest...
Wilkinson's approach to this challenge is low-key. Unlike the motorboat-riding evangelists ("ambulance chasers," he calls them) who infest some locks, Wilkinson wants only to draw the men more closely into the Christian community to which most of them already belong. He has set up an 800 number for mariners in need of emergency pastoral care far from home, and in three months has logged 7,000 land miles in his white Ford Escort, recruiting shoreside ministers to respond. Boarding the Grainger at the Robert C. Byrd lock in West Virginia, he forgoes preaching in favor of hearing...
...agent who is indirectly responsible for the murder of the three civil rights activists in 1964 is now a staff member for Rep. Mike Parker, another Mississippi Republican. Even the two old and grizzled, foes of racial equality, Jesse Helms (R, N.C.) and Strom Thurmond (R, S.C.), continue to infest the Senate...
...that you represent a disenfranchised minority of some sort or another, and everyone is out to prevent you from getting your constitutionally-guaranteed due. Even if you're a conservative, Christian, heterosexual white male, fear not! You, too, have been marginalized and discriminated against by minority-loving liberals who infest the media and the government...
...only two South American regions where illegal coca leaves are grown. Peruvian air force commandos spotted the wreckage Sunday, but heavy rains and thick vegetation hampered the recovery operation for a day. A D.E.A. investigation is trying to discover whether armed drug traffickers or Shining Path guerrillas who infest the area played any role in the crash...