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All the disputes that eventually led to armed conflict between the states would begin, in the period after 1865, to plague the courts and throw into question the values that the war should have secured.
Yet it would appear, from the amount of comment published in the British press, that the subject concerns people in Britain more than people in the U.S.A recent report from Charles Bremner, their New York correspondent, appeared on the front page of The Times . It dealt with what Bremner characterized as the “new plague of euphemisms” that threatens to overcome meaningful communication between Americans.
Inequality is spreading like a plague.
This somehow allowed the plants to resist adverse weather conditions and even the grape plague, phylloxera, that decimated vines all over Europe in the second half of the 19th century.
What about the plague of locusts and the rain of frogs?"