Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pace. The present American conservative, unlike the British conservative to whom constitutionality and civil liberty are first considerations, needs a Constitutionality and civil liberty are first considerations, needs a Constitutional crisis to become aware of deep-lying moral issues. This kind of morality will let a McCarthy run rampant four years, and then discovers it's an expensive ride when its own preservation is intimidated. What conservatives must learn is that there is no such thing as economy in truth or awareness. Frederick J. Willman '56 President of the Harvard Young Democrats
...major injuries and had three miscarriages, four stillbirths, six babies who died within a year and four mentally retarded. The other 68 escaped grave injury, but also had a far higher proportion of stillborn or stunted children than a similar group outside the blast area. ¶Measles has been rampant in some parts of the U.S. this year, with 30,475 cases by mid-April. Indiana spotted itself for distinction: with one-fortieth of the nation's population, it had almost one-half of the measles14,096 cases. fl ¶A 73-year-old upholsterer who died in Washington...
...trend of public sympathy. They have hit spring, and hit it hard. On the cover, somebody called Updike has drawn a parody of seventeenth century German wood cutting. Naturally, it depicts spring, and features a shepherd scattering what seem to be peanuts to indignant sheep and goats. With woodcut rampant on a green field, it is one of the best covers in a good while. In the editorial, too, Jester weighs the memory of faded beauties with the immediacy of a fine spring day, and the latter triumphs...
Doctors are pretty well agreed that it is unwise to remove tonsils or adenoids while polio is rampant: within a month or two after such an operation, an invasion by the polio virus is more likely to result in the oftentimes fatal bulbar form of the disease. Last week the A.M.A. Journal called the attention of U.S. family doctors to growing evidence that polio victims who have lost tonsils, adenoids, or both, at any time in their lives, are more susceptible to bulbar and bulbo-spinal attacks...
Even so, the British revere their health program. Conservatives endorse it, and doctors--if pressed--will admit the advantages of compulsory health insurance. "We are treating for the first time patients with diseases rampant for years," one doctor stated. "No wonder our offices are crowded--the people who used to die unnoticed are getting some attention...