Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during the 1967 disturbances. It also presented city officials with a list of seven demands, including appointment of a black police chief and assistant fire chief and a near equal black-white ratio in all city jobs. The demands and a boycott used to dramatize them touched off a rash of snipings, which ended only after Illinois Governor Richard Ogilvie sent in National Guardsmen to keep the peace...
Though the hostility between government and unions began to grow almost from the moment Wilson took office, there was no head-on clash until this spring, when Wilson vowed to end a damaging rash of wildcat strikes by imposing stiff fines on offending workers and unions. In June, Wilson was forced to back down under fierce opposition both within his party and among the unions. The showdown came when Victor Feather, the T.U.C.'s earthy new chief (see box), warned that labor might just let Labor go it alone at the polls next time. Wilson is expected to call...
Nevertheless, noting the rash of recent plane hijackings, District Court Judge Guy Rizzotto said: "Making a crack about Cuba in an airplane is the same as standing up in a theater and crying 'fire.' " Dudley was found guilty and fined $200. He plans to appeal to a Massachusetts superior court...
What has agitated Kahane and his followers is the rash of anti-Jewish statements made by some extremists, both black and white, during the past year...
Perhaps our most important and pressing conclusion is that rash legislative action cutting off funds to entire institutions because of the action of a minority of students would play directly into the hands of those hard-core revolutionaries. Legislation which treats innocent and guilty alike inadvertently confirms extremist charges that "establishment" is repressive ad indifferent to citizen needs and concerns. We must not put ourselves in the position of aiding the handful of anarchists...