Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slim little lady from Omsk reached up and pulled a string. Her tug released a flag (hammer-&-sickle rampant on field gules) which covered part of a tank. Written boldly on the tank's bare flank was the word STALIN...
...beaming, bumbling, balding President William Green hailed the Hutcheson decision, which so clearly made possible continuation of corruption and racketeering rampant in some A.F. of L. unions. But Trust Buster Arnold merely fitted another cigar into his mustache and went to work. Deciding that labor's new Siegfried Line could not be carried by assault, he moved underground. He had to go there. No one else in the New Deal wanted to sponsor a measure which attacked labor's rights even if they were wrongs...
...such kidney was the ruler of Persia when Colonel Reza Khan took over. The treasury was empty, the Army little more than an armed rabble. Brigandage and tribal disaffection were rampant. The country's roads were hardly better than camel tracks, and so dreadful was transportation that fields of surplus wheat and barley might rot in one section while 600 miles away a bread famine would rage. The citizenry was saturated with corruption, ignorance and disease...
...conquered, collaborative France both political and material sabotage were rampant, and some of the best friends of the Axis were shot (see p. 15). > General Charles de Gaulle was rumored to have offered Free French bases in West Africa to the U.S. although, after the U.S. Government made no acknowledgment, he denied...
Though The Conservative Revolution makes an excellent book title, as a political slogan it leads Author Rauschning into all kinds of verbal quibblings. By it Rauschning means that against the Marxist revolutionary forces which are rending Europe (Naziism, he says, is Marxism rampant no less than Bolshevism), men like himself must fight to the death. But a struggle against revolution cannot be revolution: it is counterrevolution. Counterrevolution is what Rauschning wanted when he joined the Nazis, but they turned out to be part of the revolution. Conservative counterrevolution, preferably nonviolent, is what he still wants. It is bound to prevail...