Word: blighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boasts about gathering chestnuts as a barefoot boy is usually owning up to getting on in years. Nearly all U.S. chestnut trees were destroyed by a fast-spreading fungus disease which started in New York City before 1910. Since then there have been many attempts to find or breed blight-resistant chestnuts. Most of the new or introduced trees were unsuited to the climate, or they required too much care, or they produced poor nuts or low-grade timber. None had all the qualities of the old trees...
...barefoot boys and for the lumber industry. It reported that a Chinese chestnut, Castanea mollissima, is doing well in many parts of the U.S. The trees in an experimental plot near Roanoke, Va. are now 14 years old, and appear to have all the desirable qualities. Besides resisting blight, they produce good nuts and good straight trunks for timber. Best of all, they come true to seed, and are actually seeding themselves beyond the experimental plot, just like native trees. The only part of the chestnut belt where they have not done well is New England...
...even orchard chestnuts. What it wants is a tree that will establish itself under forest conditions. If Castanea mollissima does so on a large scale, a side benefit may be an upsurge of wild turkeys, which once lived largely on chestnuts, and were greatly reduced in numbers when the blight killed the trees...
...potato, runs Dr. Salaman's argument, the underprivileged of the world succumbed to the will of the rich; the Irish in particular let their living habits fall to a standard as low as that of rooting pigs. The great blow fell in Ireland in 1845 when a dismal blight turned the entire potato crop to dust almost overnight, killing a million Irishmen and sending a million more to sow in the U.S. "The seeds of Anglophobia which, after 100 years, is still alive...
...year later, perhaps from shock, worry, and a fall from favor because of the rise of Titoism, Zhdanov died. At once Malenkov more than made up his lost ground. In the process, a blight fell upon the fortunes of outstanding Zhdanov...