Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what they would "rather do than be a journalist," the editors offer a rash of suggestions from farmer and house carpenter to locomotive engineer and successful novelist. One wants to "be a good writer"; another would like to get some sleep; two would prefer to comb beaches; and one disgruntled citizen proclaims, "I bitterly oppose work of all kinds...
Meanwhile the big guns of the Southern delegation had been gathering material for the battle to come. Mississippi's roundheaded Senator James Eastland swore darkly to talk "two years if necessary." His fellow Mississippian, Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo was less rash. He would speak twice-"for 30 days each time...
...winter Winston Churchill had been troubled by coughs and colds; he badly needed the month or more of sunshine and warmth he would find in Florida. But his absence from Britain-and from the new session of Parliament-had started a rash of newspaper rumors that he was stepping down from the Tory leadership. Already Party quidnuncs were speculating about his heirs. His great & good friend Anthony Eden would deputise for him-with his ex-friend Lord Beaverbrook's open disapproval. And there were others in the field to inherit the Churchill political estate, if it should be probated...
...hockey had become more violently rowdy than ever. There was a rash of sprains, broken bones, and bashed heads, and player tempers showed no signs of cooling...
...Scratching only spreads it. The old-fashioned treatment was heroic: sulfur ointment-which often caused another kind of skin eruption-and boiling sheets! and clothes (now known to be unnecessary) every time they were used. In recent years dermatologists have been curing itchers with benzyl benzoate, which causes less rash. They are now experimenting with a concoction of DDT, benzyl benzoate to kill the mites and a secret ingredient which kills the eggs, in the skin-deep burrows...