Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real news. In another way, the story of how the press reported, emphasized and commented on the Mikoyan visit was of perhaps greater importance than the visit itself. For both stories-stories you will read only in TIME-see PRESS, Making News That Isn't and "Objectivity" Rampant...
...professedly democratic rebel movement gave elections a low priority-18 months from now, or perhaps two years. Urrutia vowed that rampant prostitution, a symbol of Batista corruption, would be wiped out. When warned that this might hurt tourism, he answered that Cuba will attract U.S. visitors "by more decent means-sports, for instance." Castro said that the gambling casinos would be reopened, for tourists only, and "the profits will go to the people." The ban on liquor sales stayed in effect until week's end, but reformist zeal could not entirely suppress the Cuban love of life. As tension...
...Stevens) has all the normal qualifications: 1) a bachelor apartment that would do for "Baby" Pignatari; 2) a girl friend (Lola Albright) who sings in "Mother's" cabaret and waits languidly on his couch so she can boil a couple of eggs whenever he gets e; 3) a rampant palship with every list, pool shark, trigger man and le in town. But Producer-Director Blake Edwards, 36, who also writes about the Gunn scripts, believes that Pete a little extra going for him. Says ards: "We tailored him in high style, man is intelligent, dresses well and is much...
Author Keyes could not. Fiction, as she suggests in her preface, must not be completely fictitious, and murders are "not rampant or even frequent" in Louisiana rice fields. So, instead, Author Keyes has made her tale turn on a murder in a rice bin. The victim is a fictional cabaret singer named Titine Dargereux ("very good to look at, and the closer she came, the more alluring"). Cajun Titine titillates Rice Prince Prosper Villac, who "had her to himself beside a bayou" in return for a pair of gold slippers. So when Titine is found suffocated in the Villac rice...
There are hazards to the cyclists which exist as a result of inconsistent traffic and parking regulation enforcement as well: Double-parking, which is rampant, forces the cyclist to swerve out into the street into the traffic. This is particularly bad on Massachusetts Avenue near Plympton Street and further out towards Porter Square in the neighborhood of Sacremento Street. The "twenty feet from the island" regulation is not enforced and this again causes a severe and hazardous bottleneck. Finally, the idiot who opens his car door into traffic is a menace both to himself and to others...