Word: rampantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sacred Laws. With such a definition; much of the trivia and confusion now rampant in the schools would be eliminated. Such skills as reading, for instance, are obviously indispensable in making wise decisions, but basket-weaving is something else again. "Social adjustment, in the sense of 'getting along with people,' or conformity, is not an educational aim. An education must include learning how to choose when it is best not to conform, and when one should differ." The fact, says Woodring, is that education must be primarily intellectual, for "all choice is intellectual...
...Kiss from Achille. Lauro began the Sardinian campaign for his Monarchist candidates by doling out 10,000 Easter eggs and 10,000 parcels of toys. These were followed by 10,000 layettes, 500,000 key cases, 100,000 aprons bearing the rampant lion of the Popular Monarchist Party, and countless babies' bibs inscribed "A Kiss from Lauro." (Of the 800 babies born in Sardinia in the past two months, 103 were christened Achille...
...tightening money market did not, as some thought, reflect business pessimism; it showed confidence in the future. Early this year, with exaggerated recession talk rampant, there was a tendency for investors to get out of the stock market and seek the security of bonds and their guaranteed return. This made money easier to borrow, helped check the rise in interest rates. But the return of confidence and the recovery in the stock market checked the shift; even though the Dow-Jones index of the yields on top bonds was about 4.40% v. 4.50% for the blue chips, many investors...
Beards are fun, but they itch. An example of a less personal possession with an enduring European flavor is the motor scooter. Vespas and Lambrettas are noisily rampant on the streets of Rome and Venice, and so they are arriving in Cambridge in ever-increasing numbers. They not only attract attention, but impart that desirable note of devil-may-care hardiness when they come abreast complacent, insulated Buicks on Mass...
...though Java accounts for only 17% of Indonesia's exports, it gobbles up a disproportionate slice (73%) of its imports. Sumatra, on the other hand, contributes 72% of Indonesia's exports in return for 20% of its imports. Added to these items of resentment was anger at rampant government corruption. By last week, military commanders had proclaimed a series of bloodless revolts and separatist movements that left the central government in effective control of only the island of Java and a small section of north central Sumatra...