Word: rampantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smith, McComb voter registration worker, said that the arrest had envoked "rampant enthusiasm from the Negro community...
...lifelong resident of New York City, I feel that a great deal that goes on here never reaches the headlines-mainly facts about the corruption that is rampant throughout the city. As you point out, there must be something terribly wrong when a policeman is afraid to make an arrest for fear of losing his job. I have two relations who are policemen, and I can assure you that this is not a myth: this is an everyday occurrence...
...change of venue; instead, he handed over most of the courtroom to the press. "If ever there was a trial by newspapers," he said, "this was a perfect example. Public officials, the courts and the jury are unable to perform their proper functions when the news media run rampant, with no regard for their proper role. Freedom of the press cannot be permitted to overshadow the rights of an individual to a fair trial...
...there's a send-'em-home-happy ending, but otherwise the script is admirably loyal to the play. It sets the same scene: a rundown resort hotel in Mexico. It presents the same persons: the rampant tramp (Ava Gardner) who keeps the hotel for business and a couple of beach boys for pleasure; a renegade reverend (Richard Burton) expelled from his parish in Virginia for rutting in the rectory; a roundheeled teen-ager (Sue Lyon) who wishes she had been there; a peripatetic painter (Deborah Kerr) who sketches for her supper...
Park's list of failures was accurate enough. Corruption and speculation are rampant, the price of rice has skyrocketed 150% in the past 15 months, and mounting unemployment now stands at 2,500,000-more than 10% of the population. Sporadic student demonstrations began in March, ostensibly protesting Park's conditions for "normalizing" relations with Japan,* then turned on the government in general...