Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rosy forecasts, the 13 million cars on the roads and the second homes in the countryside has not reached the millions of Frenchmen who earn $180 or $200 a month, or who try to live on old-age pensions frozen at $2.20 a day in a time of rampant inflation. Overlaying the unevenness of le boom is an ill-defined but widely felt boredom with the Gaullists. Last spring, 40% of the French electorate did not even bother to turn out for a Common Market referendum that Pompidou too cleverly planned as a kind of national vote of confidence. Then...
...speculation becomes more rampant when the identity of a permanent dean is considered, although discussion seems to center on four men. Leading candidates for a permanent position are believed to be: James Q. Wilson, professor of Government: Alan E. Heimert '49, Cabot Professor of American Literature: Henry Rosovsky, professor of Economics: and Harvey Brooks, McKay Professor of Applied Physics...
...price of prosperity is also being paid in terms of rampant inflation that is currently running at the rate of 1% a month at the same time that the expansion which fueled it is tapering somewhat. In Catalonia, Asturias and Bilbao, housewives recently defied a government ban and demonstrated against rising food prices. At a time when Spain is undergoing rapid change, and faces the pain of adjustment to a new political era, inflation of that magnitude is an ever-present worry to the nation's economic-and political -managers...
Chivalry. The indecent exposure of the ex-First Lady excited Europe, where Jackiemania is still rampant, and enthralled Italians of both sexes. "It was the women, above all, who were curious," observed Rome's Il Messaggero. "Not very sexy," purred one Italian matron, "and a little bit wooden." Milan's Il Giorno noted chivalrously-and accurately-that Jackie's figure, at 43, is "still elegant, slim, and young...
...come to reply to those who would measure the moral philosophy of students in the balance of a minor administrative decision on an HSA scheme. Since the last shaky parietals fell on some unnoticed night in late 1969, freshmen haven't even had to be discreet about their traditionally rampant depravity (which, it is commonly known is often combined with pre-marital contraception.) In this context the administration policy has been objectively pro-promiscuity...