Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Further, the painful conflict of loyalties between Smith and the Queen may well deplete Rhodesia's civil service and army. The rigors of seige will surely weaken the government, making it prone to rash and violent repression. In such a situation weakness and repression, the African nationalists would have a chance at power...
...sudden sabre-rattling stance of the Students for a Democratic Society in protesting "British inaction to uphold democracy" is an astounding feat of double-think. Can anything be more rash, ill-considered, and detrimental to the cause of peace? The SDS admittedly does not profess to be a pacifist group. Nonetheless, the demand for immediate recourse to military action is hardly the initial response to be expected of a body whose origins lie in the sense of moral outrage at the holocaust in Southeast Asia. Surely the SDS is not merely attempting to counter-act the imputation of cowardice...
Sukarno is a sick man (kidney and gall-bladder trouble), and it seems likely that the sudden rash of plotting represented maneuvers for position by factions anticipating his departure from the scene. Seven Chinese doctors constantly attend him, and he stayed all week at Bogor. But he didn't look very ill as he paced his palace corridors. In fact, his familiar charm seemed still to have some of its old effect. The army reluctantly called a halt to its roundup of Communists and even anti-Red newspapers were responding to the call for unity. But if, after...
...example, Moyers cited the rash of announcements he gave out just before Johnson's last trip to Texas. Instead of welcoming all the news, the press grumbled that it should have been ladled out over a period of two or three days. "If we had done that," continued Moyers, "that would have been managing the news. Newsmen complain if they get too little and if they get too much. As Oscar Wilde put it, 'In the old days we had the rack. Today we have the press...
...traditional silence at home football games, broken for a time by a rash of three-foot-long red plastic horns, has been restored by law and now it'll be so quiet that you can hear one of John McCluskey's passes drop...