Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inherent in the German people. Kohn feels that our greatest mistake in 1918 was the failure of the Allies to destroy forever the prestige of the German militarists. If this time every German is absolutely convinced that his nation is completely and utterly defeated, Kohn believes that the rampant nationalism of the 19th and early 20th centuries may yet be replaced by a lasting system of collective security. A little paradoxical, perhaps, is his greatest wish-that the phenomenon about which he has written and studied all his life will soon be a thing of the past...
Almost half of Latin America's 120,000,000 inhabitants are sick with diseases that are not incurable, but from most of which they will never recover. Smallpox has wiped out entire villages; tuberculosis, malaria, typhoid are always rampant. Hundreds of thousands suffer from exotic and mysterious home-grown ailments. Some, like ainhum or "barefoot leprosy," are lingeringly fatal...
...This is an inherent antithesis between the unity of medieval life and the chaos of the individualistic spirit of the Renaissance. There is an antithesis between a closed system of coherent culture and a system of rampant individualism, between dogma and free inquiry; you may have the one or the other. But you are chasing rainbows if you think you can have them both...
Tuberculosis brought on by undernourishment is now rampant in Greece. Meat, fish, potatoes and cheese are unobtainable. The present bread ration is five ounces per week...
...wave of frustration swept Lowell House after the Spring Formal Friday night resulting in the greatest library job since Snooperman ran rampant last spring. Not until night watchman Bill Graney received an anonymous phone call last evening was the picture of President-emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell, ordinarily over the fireplace, found in the closet of an unnamed tutor...