Word: rashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CRIMSON SPLASHES: Coach Joe Bernal's troops traveling to the shores of Lake Erie will be Harvard's strongest NCAA contingent in recent years. Barring a rash of illness or injury, their chances of improving upon last season's 15th place finish are bright...
...President himself feels unfairly besieged by the rash of criticism of his foreign policy. He thinks that his show of restraint should be seen not as weakness but rather as the patient forbearance of a powerful nation and its leader. Indeed, in all his public speeches, even as a candidate, Carter usually lowered his voice to make his main points, apparently expecting that he would thus gain more respect than if he indulged himself in stridency...
...women who in their 20s concentrated on their careers decided in their 30s, as they began to contemplate the impending biological limit of their childbearing years, to have at least one child while there was time. Says Novelist Anne Roiphe (Up the Sandbox): "We're seeing a whole rash of people having babies just in the nick of time. There's a difference between what one says at 20 and what one says at 38." Roiphe persuasively argues that the dogmas against children-or at least, against having children-are undergoing revision. "There has indeed been a swing...
...forces, including warships, steaming off the Viet Nam coast, with the apparent aim of monitoring Chinese military communications as well as showing Soviet support for Hanoi. The U.S., for its part, has kept two Seventh Fleet aircraft carriers, the Constellation and the Midway, poised near by to discourage any rash action...
Upset over a rash of muggings, rapes and robberies in their New Haven, Conn., neighborhood, ten residents wrote a letter to the editor of the local newspaper, demanding better police protection. "It is very important to all of us," they said, "that our families remain safe...