Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshmen took a 1-0 lead into the second quarter, but the Academy boys staged a precocious, rash crush of goals, scoring five times in seven and one-half minutes. The Andies held that 5-1 lead at the half...
...have experienced a devastating rash of tornadoes [April 15]-more than 300 dead and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Is there one country on this planet that rushed...
...possible retribution from the President's men, sources began avoiding the reporters and new leads dried up. For five weeks after the Haldeman story, the reporters were unable to provide another Page One expose. In desperation Woodward and Bernstein tried to reach Watergate grand jury members for information, a rash move that outraged Federal Judge John Sirica and nearly landed the pair in jail for violating the secrecy of grand jury proceedings. A warning from Deep Throat that the two might be targets of Government surveillance?or worse?plunged them into fears for their safety. Both suspected their phones might...
Part of the problem lies with the rash use of theater-in-the-round. Close audience proximity places harsh demands on the facial features of amateur actors; group scenes require complex and flawless stage directions in this circular space; lighting is made difficult; technical effects more intrusive. Virtually all of the play's striking visual moments--as when the rapacious soldier lurches bare-chested and vain from the bedroom of the Jew's fiance--would have been as effective on a conventional stage...
While too many unthinkingly declare Eliot "the greatest poet of this century," Robert Frost was no less rash, dubbing him "a tricky poet and mealymouthed snob." Indiscriminate condemnation and equally indiscriminate Eliotolatry have characterized public opinion from the beginning. Matthews consistently avoids, or at least conceals, such head-over-heels bias; he confronts the man on equal ground...