Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strange and wonderful disease, CHARITYITIS, is running rampant in the Harvard area. CHARITYITIS causes a rare reaction in the female: she is overcome with an uncontrollable urge to ask the male for a date! Symptoms: wildly palpitating heart. Extreme euphoria. A sense of delicious abandon...
...higher still. Investors switch their money out of fixed-yield bonds and into stocks, which are a better hedge against inflation partly because buyers think that they are. Inflation has contributed to both the stock market overspeculation and Wall Street's glut of back-office paperwork. * Because of rampant inflation, unions increasingly demand unlimited cost-of-living wage increases instead of limited boosts. Complains Paul Carmichael, a Pittsburgh electrical workers' official: "The ink is hardly dry on labor contracts these days before price increases make them obsolete...
Christo-he never uses his surname-knows how to muffle a rampant motorcycle so that it acquires the petrified dynamism of a stuffed buffalo or a blind folded rhinoceros. He can embalm a slender sapling so that it lies with the mute pathos of Pearl White bound and gagged on the railroad track. His current winding sheet in Chicago enfolds a cadaver so Brobdingnagian that even the man in the street has been confronted by the undertaking...
...visit a cousin of mine there, but he was a good guide. I asked him about the intimacy I felt at the Feast, and he told me that it was in this house in "the glen" that most of the T-groups were held. Memories must have been rampant, since almost everyone at Antioch had been in a T-group at least once, and it shows...
...this natural impulse is cunningly suppressed: one day he will be the old man. He feels as strong an affinity for his buddy as for his wife-or even his mother, once he has been weaned. But, says the expert, the rage and the lust in him are perpetually rampant. Everything he possesses, everything he is, he owes to the intellectual control that stays the trigger finger...