Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contempt. No nation had ever come into the world without bloodshed. In every process of hope, ambition, confused value, self-deceit, India is merely the world in small, and one more terrible warning to the conscience of the world. India's gravest error, her deepest sin, is rampant in all the world and never so madly so as in those portions of the world which call themselves "modern": the incapacity of those who desire to lead people, whether for power or in the highest of good will, to know, love, fear, respect, or even to imagine, what human beings...
With European industry and agriculture laid waste, not only is self-sufficiency in food impossible, but the industrial goods needed to pay for food imports cannot be forthcoming for several years. Political considerations spurred by rampant socialism, and complimented by humanitarian qualms, have goaded America into sending aid without repayment in goods. As food and goods are siphoned out of our economy, incomes and savings continue to mount, further fortifying the already healthy inflationary infant...
...harassed manufacturer and a nominal Republican myself, and I realize that they want to lower the debt by cutting expenditures. I know only too well what stupidity and inefficiency run rampant in some government bureaus, but why doesn't the Republican majority launch a constructive program to correct this basic cause of expensive government, instead of criticizing the sound policies of their opponents...
When "Big Doctor," as the Indians call him, arrived at Ganado on the Navajo reservation in 1927, after twelve years of missionary doctoring in China, he found the Navajos in a "far sorrier plight than the Chinese." Typhoid, diphtheria and tuberculosis were rampant, and tribal medicine men were about the only "doctors" the Navajos had. Dr. Salsbury got the Presbyterian Board of Missions to build him a two-story stone hospital. He and his wife drove out over the rough wagon trails to drum up trade...
...need doctors, and children are everywhere. Last week, for the first time since 1937, some 1,800 pediatricians from all over the world (59 nations) met in Manhattan's plushy Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Their medical findings confirmed some things that most people already knew: undernourishment and tuberculosis are rampant among children throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. But the meeting also produced some new, surprising findings...