Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Successful as South Africa has been in its battle to keep the white man on his pedestal and the black man in his place at its foot, its rabid Nationalists have always been haunted by a fear of the future. By A.D. 2000, they reckon, the nation's 6,000,000 whites will be swamped in a sea of 25 million blacks. Last week, after five years' study, a government-appointed commission headed by Pretoria University's Professor F. R. Tomlinson, a Cornell graduate with a U.S. wife, brought forth a blueprint for total apartheid (apartness...
...Acid Test. Though it seemed incredible on that hot night 18 months ago, the beast was performing probably wolf's greatest service to man since the she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus. The wolf of Sahneh was rabid, and his appearance was just what a World Health Organization team had been waiting for. If it gets a chance to develop, rabies is invariably fatal. Ever since the days of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), doctors have been able to head off rabies with a series of 14 to 21 vaccinations, but the treatment is costly, painful-and sometimes fatal...
...Ever-rabid in its denunciation of Senator McCarthy's witch hunts, the Americans for Democratic Action has recently assumed its own air of inquisitorial self-righteousness. Last week the national headquarters intervened to prevent Alger Hiss from speaking at the Swarthmore chapter of the ADA. Since the national organization gave no other grounds for its authoritarian behavior, its action obviously represents an attempt to raise a facade of political respectability...
...Southern Case. More dignified than the extremists is another group of stalwart prosegregation papers typified by the Charleston, S.C. News & Courier (circ. 53,286). It occasionally offends rabid racists by printing constructive news of the Negro community, and its editor, Thomas R. Waring, appeared in Harper's Magazine gently pleading "The Southern Case Against Desegregation...
...United Nations border guard plan has certain definite advantages: while protecting both sides from their own rabid attitudes, it commits none of the member nations to either side. But it is not enough, for even though the force would obviously represent world opinion, Arab resentment would still run strong. The Arabs might be placated, however, if the U.N. or the United States aided in relocating the Arab refugees, whose presence is one of the roots of Arab hostility...