Word: sap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Criticism Will Sap Strength...
...Sufficient Indoctrination of 'awareness of the defects of the existing social order' will certainly sap the courage of many people, sap it to a point where willingness to fight becomes conspicuous by its absence. This is the danger on the one side which confronts any free democratic land...
...equate the status quo with perfection has been the insidious disease of every civilization. To stifle criticism is the method of all who have privilege and enjoy it. It is the method by which a ruling class endeavors to sustain through the generations its rights and power. Complacency will sap the courage of a nation as readily as will destructive self-criticism...
...paints from Sears, Roebuck, got herself some old planks, sheets of tin and pieces of threshing canvas to paint on. Then she started to make pictures of the hilly country around Eagle Bridge. Most of her pictures showed scenes and events of farm life: boiling maple sap on the winter snow, rounding up the turkey for Thanksgiving, covered bridges, Model T Fords, bonfires. Her picture frames she took from old mirrors in the attic. Once she attempted an allegory: a picture of an angel saving two children from falling over a cliff. She labeled it "The Gardin Angle" (Guardian Angel...
...scientists have measured many of them, and can identify them by pattern, in much the same way as a blind man knows the shape of his furniture by groping around. Viruses are measured in several different ways. One is to strain a substance known to contain a virus (like sap from a diseased plant) through a filter with pores of submicroscopic size. The smallest virus, that of foot-and-mouth disease, is ten-millionths of a millimeter in diameter...