Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wartime America) was more inclined to promote intolerance than tolerance. It was certainly bad advertising for Boston. Said the script: "Nearly every Bostonian you speak to-those who will open up at all-is conscious that something is radically wrong behind the scenes. Isolationism, antiSemitism, pro-appeasement are more rampant in Boston than in any city in the land. . . . The Irish are an absolute majority and run the city from top to bottom. They are predominantly anti-British, anti-Russian, anti-Semitic and anti-New Deal. Most of it goes back to Father Coughlin's paper Social Justice, which...
...stands were packed tight on both sides of the gymnasium, mostly with ASTP and V-12 members, and their enthusiasm ran rampant for most of the evening. Many celebrities were present including the heads of the ASTP and V-12 units at Harvard and high officers from both the Army and Navy First Service Commands...
...rate meant that the Army could construct or enlarge airfields, erect new quarters at half the former cost, thus forestall any future criticism of exorbitant expenditures in China. Officially, the Army and other U.S. agencies had been unable to buy Chinese dollars on inflated China's rampant black market (TIME, Dec. 6). Individually, Army personnel can continue to draw pay in U.S. dollars,turn a tidy profit in the black market; where the rate is still more than double the new official exchange...
...Comely Lena Home proficiently marshals Count Basic's band and numerous choristers through a particularly unpleasant stretch of sub-operatic Africorn about the walls of Jericho. Eleanor Powell, who is the best female tap dancer on tap, proves it in a rope dance, a modified hula and a rampant straight number on a milk-white stage battleship. But Red Skelton is the best...
...real threat to Algerian unity. De Gaulle now dominates both the controlling Liberation Committee and the advisory Consultative Assembly. Frenchmen had waited long for a national standardbearer. Whether that standard was to be the Tri-color or the Cross of Lorraine did not matter. De Gaulle personified a France rampant, able at least to force its presence on the consciousness of other nations...