Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...February were mid-December, Clark Hodder would be a lot happier. Right now he figures the hockey team has reached the stage of relative perfection which it should have attained at about the time when Santa Clauses and Christmas seals were rampant...
Within the territory still nominally under her rule, France saw the fabric of control disintegrating. Native uprisings, inspired partly by Japanese but mostly by bitter hatred of the French, were rampant in Tonkin, Cochin-China and Cambodia. Even among native troops bloody clashes occurred between Moroccan legionaries and Indo-Chinese. Native bands with equipment abandoned by fleeing Annamite soldiers had become a formidable menace as guerrillas. Upon growing chaos in Indo-China rested the blessing of Japan...
This year, the main Allied Armies are in the eastern Mediterranean: the Greeks in Albania, the British and Anzacs in Libya. And the easiest way for the Nazis to get into the area where the Allied arms are now rampant-the only way to get there by land-is through Bulgaria and its neighbor Yugoslavia. So 1941 finds Bulgaria and Yugoslavia in much the same predicament as Belgium and The Netherlands in the first weeks...
...caused by a number of mysterious organisms. Only one group of these is known to science: Influenza Virus A, identified seven years ago. This is the virus now rampant on the West Coast...
...There is an inherent antithesis between the unity of medieval life and chaos of the individualistic spirit of the Renaissance. There is an antitheses 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...