Word: rashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, astute commentators, noting the proximity of Radcliffe to the University and vice-versa, and the rash of colds among students at both institutions, were surmising on the possibilities of contagion. They predicted a spread to Wellesley by the end of the coming weekend...
Boston University-Harvard vandalism climaxed its second straight night with a 15-yard "B.U." burned in the Soldiers Field gridiron, defacement of John Harvard, and a rash of blue and crimson "H's" on buildings and sidewalks across the river-all discovered early this morning...
Neither incompetent nor careless, and by no means stupid, Robert Sharon Allen of Pearson & Allen's Washington Merry-Go-Round was Patton's G-2 operations executive (i.e., military intelligence officer) in the ETO campaigns. He came home minus his right arm, sporting a rash of ribbons and a Patton commendation for "superior performance." No shrinking violet, Allen has let his publisher spread the commendation on the jacket of Lucky Forward, his raucous, truculent history of Patton's Third Army. In a not very roundabout way, the author is made to shine in the reflection of Patton...
...Freedom Train was Attorney General Tom Clark's idea. He and a group of advertising men thought the U.S. needed an antidote for what they diagnosed as a rash of postwar cynicism, lawlessness and ideological confusion...
...gilded statue of Prometheus, the American Association for the United Nations was industriously hammering together a set of flagpoles, loudspeakers and rostrums for the celebration of "United Nations Week." Westchester County's Tarrytown had somehow been appointed "model United Nations community," and forthwith broke out in a rash of red-white-&-blue bunting. While 10,000 enthusiasts besieged the Secretariat for tickets to the great International Floor Show (only 30 visitors would be admitted the first day), Tarrytown's Fire Department, the Girls' Friendly Society, the Kiwanis Club of Bound Brook (N.J.) and Manhattan's sleek...