Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is an inherent antithesis between the unity of the 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 think you can have them both...
...Foreign Minister Mihail Manoilescu, last week suffered a nervous breakdown on the train back to Bucharest. But more than nerves were breaking. Rumanian editors, who for years had supported the regime, suddenly turned around and told the people of graft and corruption in building the Carol Line, denounced rampant rottenness in State and Court...
...James Thurber, comes to pass, Gertrude Atherton will be the Stonewall Jackson of the rebel females. The House of Lee, a tale of a girl of 22, her mother of 40, her grandmother of 60, is not so noteworthy because of its strident feminism as because of its rampant, 82-year-old author...
...TIME, July 15) and said to be written by Poet Archibald MacLeish, the new order will decorate "all stuffed shirts, politicians or others, who prove themselves friends of Adolf Hitler ... by hampering and slowing up the national defense of the U. S.'' Highest decoration: "the American Razzberry Rampant upon a Nazi Swastika Couchant." Lesser: "the Crooked Double Cross...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation volunteering to spy on their neighbors. To Washington flocked businessmen, big & small, proffering services. The President ordered memos drafted by all of his aides, their ideas to be boiled into a page. The Capitol combined the worried gloom of the last Hoover days with the rampant confusion of NRA Blue Eagle times...