Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carleton barracks was not empty. It was being converted into classrooms for 700 reservists and housed an estimated half a million dollars worth of hush-hush asdic, radio and radar equipment. The worried Navy threatened to turn off the water and electricity. Hanratty admitted that Operation Carleton had been "rash," began moving the vets out of the Naval barracks to other squat houses: Kildare, Porter's Island, Argyle, Lansdowne...
...tabloid Daily Mirror, "Cassandra" (William Connor), whose outspoken column almost got the paper suppressed for baiting the Churchill government four years ago, was back at his old stand. A rash of new bylines and comic strips broke out all over, and Londoners at long last could have more than a snifter of sports news...
Rachmaninoff: Songs (Jennie Tourel, accompanied by Erich Itor Kahn; Columbia, 6 sides). Mezzo-Soprano Tourel's eerie interpretation of Pushkin, Alexis Tolstoy and Victor Hugo verses is outstanding in the current rash of Rachmaninoff. Performance: excellent...
Until a year ago, Horace Murray Heidt was known chiefly as an amiable, nice-looking bandleader whose Pot o'Gold had started the rash of radio giveaway programs. Then he tangled with Jules Caesar Stein's Music Corp. of America, which controls a glittering array of movie and radio talent as tightly as James Caesar Petrillo controls his musicians. As agent for Heidt, Jules Stein was not content to collect only 10% of Heidt's musical earnings; he wanted a cut of all Heidt's earnings. Heidt refused and was forced to quit the music business...
Africa was enjoying a rash of ritual murder. Three years ago jet-complexioned Sir Ofori Atta, Paramount Chief of Akim Abuakwa, died (of natural causes) in the Gold Coast Colony. Soon his friend and secretary, Mensah, Chief of Apedwa, disappeared from view. After long investigation by the British authorities, eight natives were convicted of murdering Mensah, and sentenced to hang (TIME, Dec.11,1944). Mensah, the Crown contended, had been sacrificed to provide blood to daub a ceremonial stool which represented the late Sir Ofori; or to provide Sir Ofori with a companion in the spirit world; or both...