Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really have to go back to quality education and put our emphasis on that." Hubert Humphrey, on the other hand, charged that the Nixon Administration had "sold out" black Americans and was in "full retreat on the civil rights front." Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff, whose Senate speech denouncing "rampant racism" and "monumental hypocrisy" in the North had led to the first Southern congressional victories on civil rights issues in over a decade, said he had no regrets. "I'm damn glad I made that speech," he said. "I've touched a soft nerve in America. I wanted to make...
...children to attend schools with whites has long been legally established, Southern politicians were again stirring up opposition to school desegregation. They found a surprising ally in Connecticut's liberal Senator Abraham Ribicoff, who echoed Southern sentiment by charging that the North is guilty of "monumental hypocrisy" and "rampant racism" in its failure to integrate its own schools more fully. As if on cue, a Los Angeles superior court judge ruled two days later that the nation's most spread out (711 square miles) school system must balance its 583 schools racially by September 1971. On the very...
Anne of the Thousand Days appears to have been made for one person: the Queen of England. Though it exhibits its royalty rampant on a field of anguish, the film provides a thoroughly upbeaten ending. Cannons resound as Queen Anne Boleyn is beheaded. Henry VIII hears the signal, puts spur to horse and gallops off "to Mistress Seymour's house!" All the while, the future Virgin Queen placidly wanders the palace gardens, toddling toward history. The monarchical fevers are burning out; and England, booms the sound track, is ready for the high triumphs of Elizabeth Regina...
...brings more new evidence that the U.S. urban dweller conducts his life as though in an armed camp. In New York last week, a court ruled that a woman tenant could keep a watchdog in her apartment, in violation of her lease, because of "the present circumstances of rampant crime." Schools around the U.S. have been hiring guards to protect students. In Washington, D.C., a 15-year-old junior high school student was shot to death recently in his school by a classmate...
...This time they blamed it not on the planets but on the return of the Apollo 12 astronauts and called it "moon flu" (TIME, Dec. 19). The epidemic struck first in the north, spread relentlessly down the leg to the very toe of Italy, and last week was rampant in Sicily. Just when it seemed that the peak had passed in the north, cold weather brought a second wave to Trieste and Turin...