Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since it is so new. Vexillology, the study of flags, has only just fluttered into the dictionaries, and as 57 delegates from 14 nations gathered in London last week for the Fifth International Congress of Vexillology, the mood was unmistakable: today Webster's, tomorrow the world. For the rampant proliferation of flags round the world has established vexillology as a new fast-growth enterprise...
...mean the burglary and eating of the TKGE was no isolated event. I think we have to see it in the total context of the previous week and a half. Without trying to minimize the importance of this incident, there was a general climate of immorality that was rampant in the Garden up to that point. Adam and I were running around naked and doing a whole bunch of things that would hardly be classified today as family entertainment. When we wanted to sleep, we slept. When we wanted to eat, we ate. When we wanted to...uh...get better...
Such soft truths can scarcely tarnish Bobby's hand-tooled escutcheon (a razorback rampant on a field of Pampers). In search of a new role, he discovered that statements like "a woman's place is in the bedroom and the kitchen, in that order" got him publicity, so he kept repeating them. Then he aimed the chauvinist pitch at women's tennis. Billie Jean King and a few other leading players had been attracting attention with their demands for better treatment and larger purses for women. King, in particular, became something of a heroine of the women...
...Confidence. In a Louis Harris poll released shortly before the President spoke last week, 73% of those questioned rated his handling of the economy as inept. They had reason. By all available measures, Nixon has thoroughly botched the job he said he was elected to do: rampant inflation is driving food prices up at the fastest pace in a generation. The cost and scarcity of red meat dominate household conversation, but they are far from the only economic woe. Phase IV opened last week with a burst of price-increase announcements on many other items -steel, tires, cars. Interest rates...
Inflation is rampant. Retail prices have soared 24% in twelve months. In Uttar Pradesh state, 20,000 policemen struck in May for better wages and conditions, leading to an ugly and bloody clash with the army in which 34 men were killed. Government officials from the highest to the lowest local levels have become unashamedly corrupt. It now takes a bribe to get a child into school, to get a milk card, even to get a long-distance railway ticket, let alone any of the innumerable licenses that India's pullulating bureaucracy demands. One capital resident said last week...