Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week His Imperial Highness, Haile Selassie, King of Kings and Lion of Judah, celebrated his 52nd birthday and faced a grave educational problem. Ethiopian illiteracy is rampant. While his country was under the Italian heel, every educated Ethiopian that could be found was systematically exterminated. For six years not an Ethiopian child was allowed to go to school...
...correspondents visited some villages and the Moldavian towns of Dorohoi and Botosani (prewar pop.: 15,000, 32,000). They found a young, inexperienced, incompetent mayor at Botosani, rampant inflation, peasants cheated by the townsmen, all the old laws still on the books (although no one now obeys the anti-Semitic laws). All was according to Rumanian custom, Rumanian preference...
More recently the Bishop has fought against Boston's rampant anti-Semitism (TIME, Nov. 1), calling it "not only a threat to Jewish liberty, but to Protestant liberty, and Catholic liberty, too." He even persuaded the late William Cardinal O'Connell to join with him in condemning antiSemitism. It was the first time the 84-year-old Boston Cardinal ever signed such a statement with a Protestant...
...given him powerful support. He lost the confidence of Chile's Popular Front, failed to gain the complete confidence of his new friends on the Right. Result: turmoil. Rios, without a political majority, found it difficult to govern at all. Chile's numerous ills, notably including a rampant inflation, grew worse & worse...
...bodyguard of towering Shilluks, their hair gummed with mud and cattle dung into rampant cockscombs a foot tall, gathered around Anei Kur. They carried long durra stalks, symbolizing spears. As they approached the sacred river, they chanted age-old incantations, their meanings lost in history. At Nile-edge they met another bodyguard, bearing bamboo poles with ostrich feathers, defending the revered founder, Nyakang. With thongs of twisted grass, the guards of Nyakang bound the willing Anei Kur, marched him into Fashoda...