Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...and/or beards have dominated the scene in all times and climes until the 20th century. The scalped, scraped look came into existence during World War I and has persisted because global-scale wars have persisted. It was undertaken originally as a matter of necessity -to curb pediculosis-which runs rampant in barracks and battlefields. It is the style in cloisters and penitentiaries for the same reason. Its origin and its justifications have been forgotten in half a century of conformity...
...Chrstian Science Monitor recently let the story out on the Dow Chemical Company: Dow is furtively building a plant in India to produce a high-protein peanut-base food to alleviate rampant malputrition in that country, a condition which led an Indian spokesman to say recently that India was producing millions of subhumans yearly. On this basis, I accuse Dow of being a tool of the War against Starvation, and I accuse the University of complicity in this relationship; and I applaud the sit-in as an effective means of thwarting Dow's recruitment for this War. John H. Beck...
George was as terrified by his monstrous abstraction. He has seen forces rampant on the earth...
...gradually ceding to him some of the broader, extraconstitutional powers that Ky demanded in return for accepting the No. 2 position. One main Ky assignment will be chasing crooks. Says Ky: "During the next four years, I will devote myself to cleaning the house; otherwise, with corruption rampant in the army and administration, we will get nowhere." With that, he ordered the arrest of the province chief and two aides in the coastal province of Binh Dinh on charges of pocketing $134,000 intended to reimburse local peasants whose land had been expropriated for a U.S. air base...
...most of all persuaded the President to seek the surtax. Listing rises in retail sales, personal incomes, housing construction and industrial production, an increase in inventories and order backlogs and a drop in unemployment, Martin found "clear and compelling evidence" of inflation. "An environment of rampant inflation," warned former Treasury Under Secretary Robert V. Roosa, "will afford little opportunity for the considered development of any national policy, domestic or foreign." Roosa forecast economic dislocation "bordering on chaos" unless action was taken soon...