Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aside from dysentery and minor skin diseases (e.g., heat rash) and eye troubles (from dust and sun glare), the troops were notably free from disease. There was no heat stroke, little malaria...
Faced with a rash of frenzied campaigning for the coming Yard elections, the Student Council has recently decreed an end to the extravagant spending of well-heeled and politically wise candidates. The Council bases its decision on the supposition that any man handing out costly hoopla places the election on a plane far above the financial reaches of most students. Although a desire to squelch the inequalities of big-time campaigning is laudable, an action condemning any outlay of money for publicity tends to limit a candidate's acquaintance with the electorate and risks a decay of rising interest...
Aftosa, First of All. Last summer Mexicans were rash enough to import 320 tickproof Brazilian zebu bulls. The bulls brought the dread aftosa, or foot-&-mouth disease. By last week an epidemic had spread through ten states, and excited patrons were refusing perfectly good steak in Mexico City restaurants. Worst of all, the U.S., soundly fearing infection of its own herds, had banned the import of Mexican cattle. This was a deep hurt; 500,000 head shipped over the border each year make a big difference in northern Mexico's prosperity. Last week, while the U.S. Congress shoved through...
...their Senior year. Perhaps Student Council investigation to bring order out of present Red Book chaos will produce a first-rate publication by the end of the year. But even if a fine Red-Book eventually emerges, the Council will merely be putting a band-aid on a chronic rash if it considers the issue closed...
...prominent Britons which of his ten would get their votes. Bernard Shaw would vote only for Composer Jean Sibelius, so Sibelius was the only unanimous immortal. (The other three pickers agreed on both Shaw and Sibelius.) Wrote Shaw: "As for Churchill and the other political gentlemen-it would be rash to include them...