Word: rampantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obediently, the officers brought in Arnaoutis, who warned the King that anarchy was rampant. Next came Kanellopoulos, who advised the King to try to persuade the officers to return the country to parliamentary rule. Then with Spandidakis and the coup leaders absent, the King met alone with a handful of the highest ranking generals. "The people who are with me, stand up," commanded the King. All the generals rose, but as they and he both knew by now, it was the colonels who had the guns-and the power...
...affluent, literate West Germany, the pills and lUDs are little used; abortions equal live births-every year, 1,000,000 of each. France forbids the importation of birth-control materials; only a few women in elite private clubs pour le planning familial enjoy their benefits; again, abortion is rampant, as it is in Italy and an endless list of other, supposedly civilized nations. In most Iron Curtain countries, abortion is discouraged but permitted, and performed quickly and safely with a Soviet-invented vacuum suction device. Dr. Guttmacher calls abortion "the most severe pandemic disease in the world today...
...first objection -- the threat of rampant militarism -- seems highly illusory. The doctrine of military subservience to civilian institutions has been firmly and irrevocably established in this their susceptibility to the charisma of Commanders-in-Chief, but no one, from William Henry Harrison to Dwight David Eisenhower, ever came to power at the head of an infantry column. It is unlikely that establishing a volunteer army would unleash a succession of military coups...
...year. The Scorpion, which last year out-sold all its competitors in Cambridge, has also been struck dumb; and in spite of the Boston Review's cry that it is "on the move," its second issue has not appeared. Only The Island and the Winthrop House magazine. The Lion Rampant, have produced two issues, excellent ones at that...
...idea is scarcely spectacular or novel; it is as old as the combinations of Greek city-states, or the Hanseatic and other trading leagues of the late Middle Ages. However, after centuries of rampant nationalism, it has acquired new force. In some parts of the world, its potential is downright revolutionary...