Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bloody shirt triggered a press scandal which has confused discussion. Taken out of context, phrases like "license to use the college rooms for wild parties or for sexual intercourse," "unrestricted sexual behavior," and "closer and closer to outright scandal," are simply inflammatory. They suggest wrongly that wild parties run rampant and Harvard; Harvard students know how rare such parties...
...ward teeming with patients, many of them mangled victims of Viet Nam's guerrilla war. The cases, Dr. Grain says, were fairly routine-muscle and nerve operations, bone grafts and other reconstructive procedures. But not the conditions. Flypaper hung over the operating table, amebic dysentery was rampant, and blood for transfusions was in short supply. The thousand-bed hospital was so crowded that sometimes two beds were pushed together to accommodate three or four patients. Americans in Saigon quipped that "semiprivate at Cho-Ray means...
...tepid baby formula. The strange contraption is nothing more far out than a new plastic baby bottle called Beniflex, designed by Mead Johnson Laboratories to simplify infant feeding and provide added safeguards against nursery bacteria. As more and more U.S. hospitals fight to beat down rising costs and rampant infections, the oddly shaped dispensers are beginning to replace the standard glass bottles...
...guilt." The defense agreed that the men were conscious of guilt, but claimed they believed they were being arrested for their politics and not for murder. Their interrogation took place during the "Red Scare," when alien radicals were being deported and fear of "bomb-throwers" and foreigners was rampant in the East...
...Lion Rampant contains a lot of sludge, but the writing of Wilson and Byrd may make it worth a twenty-five cent investment...