Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cautious pace and his concentration on the constitution have irritated Bangkok's newspapers. Now that they have complete freedom, they have become vocal and critical. The papers have chided the Premier for doing little to help Thailand's sluggish economy, curb soaring inflation and eliminate rampant corruption. The English-language Bangkok Post complained that in slum areas of the capital, police services have deteriorated so badly that "robbery and violence are at a level which can only remind one of New York and Chicago...
...splash on the national scene in 1952, when college students parodied the Republicans' "I Like Ike" slogan by chanting "I Go Pogo." After a national write-in campaign, Pogo gracefully conceded the election to Eisenhower. Kelly introduced an unshaven wildcat named Simple J. Malarkey, who resembled the then-rampant Joe McCarthy and abused civil liberties in Okefenokee. Nikita Khrushchev appeared as a grumpy pig. Portraits of Lyndon Johnson as a nearsighted longhorn steer, J. Edgar Hoover as a squat bulldog and Spiro Agnew as a hyena occasionally annoyed editors and readers. As a result, papers sometimes dropped the strip...
PRINCETON-PENN--The Tigers (much to my chagrin) found some offense last week, while Penn put down a gutty Lehigh team. This could be closer than it should be. Adolphe Bellizeare should run rampant again, though, and that should be the difference. Beep. Beep. Penn 24, Princeton...
...troops mobilized along the Suez Canal seemed to be in uniform as much to keep many of them out of civilian unemployment statistics as to harass Israel. Largely because of faulty distribution facilities, there were shortages of everything from cooking oil to the tomatoes that Egyptians love. Corruption was rampant, protests increased, and repression followed. When university students demonstrated in the spring to criticize their lack of job futures, they were hauled off to jail by tough riot police...
Speculation ran rampant in Washington yesterday over who the nominee would be. Presidential press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said that only a small number of White House aides knew of Nixon's choice, and that Ford himself was notified at about...