Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie is a slow-going, vulgarly conceived, poorly executed melodrama about love in the tropics with all the usual background of palm trees, native uprisings, buried treasure, virile torsos, and dishonest fellows. In the end of course Love and Honesty are triumphantly rampant on a field of Carribbean blue. The only good thing about the picture is the technicolor...
...with it at the wrong time." When the time comes, explained the " 'dean' of American intellectual fascism," suave Lawrence Dennis, "such slogans as 'America for the Americans,' 'White Supremacy,' . . . 'Europe for the Europeans' . . . will become popular. Reactionary feeling will become rampant, followed closely by antiSemitism. . . . Declare yourself for the war now [and] after you say this begin to explain that we're fighting for Communism...
Germany. The Italian collapse caught Hitler's evil wizard Paul Joseph Goebbels unprepared. All last week he gave the German people only the barest factual details while he floundered from one explanation to another. Pessimism was rampant. Wrote the German-controlled Brüsseler Zeitung: "At present we rest our hopes exclusively on our own military strength, for there is nothing else to hope...
Temperatures are up, bets are down, tongues are wagging, dispositions are sagging--yes--the fever is rampant...
...Association," nothing good was said about the Federal Council. Noting that the Council claims to represent 23,000,000 Protestants, the Association declared that left some 24,000,000 others without representation, suggested the conservative Association was just the thing for them, suggested also a common end: to thwart "rampant liberalism and humanism . . . that strips from Christianity many of its essentials...