Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Capricornia is what every frontier story should be - tough, sprawling, rampant with physical action. This roaring story of the opening of Australia's equatorial north, published already in half a dozen European countries, won its author the Commonwealth Government's Sesquicentenary Prize...
...silence, his patience, his courage, his poetic nobility, he emerges as almost a saint. Crescentia ("Cencie") Simath, the maidservant, was apparently paralyzed with love for Edmund and endured, if possible, even more than he did. Lorne, the son, was a tragic, horrifying product of idealism crossed with rampant mother love...
During this period he has conducted courses in history and international relations, always attacking the rampant nationalism of the 19th and 20th centuries. Author of many books, he has traveled extensively throughout the world...
...fashion. But mere numbers are only part of the problem; physical and mental standards are equally vital in the equitable distribution of what the forces regard as the prospective officer pool. Here, where the most careful control is required, the greatest individual choice and one-sided competition are rampant...
...cannot the radicals demand abolition of all dictatorships, fascist and communistic? Leftists now want to leave the Russian system alone after the war. This is a compromise with idealism and shows a weak inconsistency in the radical camp. Can they expect a lasting peace with any dictatorship still rampant...