Word: destroys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million dollar common-sense campaign to preserve safety, along with its 3 billion-bag-a-year business (estimated $30 million in sales). In full-page advertisements in 117 major newspapers across the nation, the industry warned: "Never keep a plastic bag after it has served its intended usefulness. Destroy it: tear it up and throw it away...
...bruised and put-upon Alihodja sounds the elegiac theme of Andrić's book. He watches gloomily as the bustling Austrians destroy the "sweet tranquillity" of Visegrad. They busily replace the outmoded fountains with new " 'unclean' water which passed through iron pipes so that it was not fit to drink"; they industriously built a railroad to the border that finally puts an end to the centuries-old traffic over the Drina Bridge. The book's last chapters take place in the first months of World War I, with Visegrad being shelled impartially by Austrian and Serbian...
Most moths are not pests in themselves, but their larvae are-e.g., the larvae of the gypsy moth destroy thousands of trees every year. Butenandt's discovery opens the way to a new attack on such pests. Insecticides kill off useful insects along with the pests. But if the sex attractant for one particular species can be isolated and synthesized, its males can be attracted, trapped, and killed without harming useful insects...
Died. Dr. Morton Charles Kahn, 63, adventurous bacteriologist who tramped through the jungles of South America on numerous expeditions to study tropical diseases, developed (1948) a trap that could destroy 1,500 malaria-bearing mosquitoes a day (a recording of the hum of the female mosquito lures the males from miles around to an electrified screen that kills them on contact); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...mere fact that land reform seems overdue has never guaranteed that it will work. Most attempts have been disastrous failures, chiefly because they were hastily executed and designed not as sound economic measures but attempts to destroy the latifundistas as a political class. ¶ Mexico's victorious rebels of 1910-17 burned down the stately haciendas, handed out land helter-skelter-and watched farm production sag. By 1940, when 64 million acres had been given to landless families, agricultural output stood 20% lower than in 1910. Reason: the new landowners were content to raise just enough to eat, committed...