Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down at the Weld Boat House they aren't saying much about Harvard's future in the rowing business, but every once in a while someone mentions the 1948 Olympics. When this happens the men seem to get the far-away look and the feeling of wanderlust runs rampant...
Trouble and confusion were rampant in Odessa. Moscow's lofty Izvestia sternly reported that city officials had taken to changing street names at the slightest provocation. Some of Odessa's streets now had three or four names, and not even the militia (police) knew its way about. The militia itself had sinned. It had changed the name of Troitskaya (Trinity) Street to "Street of the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Toilers' and Peasants' Militia...
...Mayor Edward J. Jeffries ignored the prosecutor and asked that a charge of extortion be filed against the teamsters on behalf of a butcher named Bonkovitch. Detroit's editors were acting as though they had a burr in their pants. So was many a citizen. Labor baiting was rampant everywhere...
...April 29). Had not OPA been damned from hell to breakfast during the war when it stood for gas rationing, food rationing and such nuisances? Had not OPA been damned by farm lobbyists and businessmen after the war? Had not OPA failed to keep prices down? Black markets were rampant (see below). Perhaps the House had thought it was doing a fine thing in crippling OPA. But the House was in for a surprise...
Ever since 500 B.C., when Persia's King Ahasuerus put "the riches of his glorious kingdom" on display for six months, monarchs by the hundred and merchants by the million have been convinced that nothing stimulates trade like a fair. This idea was vigorously rampant...