Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wicks walked in Bing's steady footsteps with yet another in his recent rash of invigorating efforts. Wicks, who saw mucho minutes due to the absence of injured Curtis Rowe and Tom Boswell's fouling out, poured in 16 points and added a decisive three-point play half-way through the O.T. to put the Celtics ahead to stay...
Banks's absence loomed large early in the second period when a rash of police brutality on the official's part put forwards Bob Hooft and Roosevelt Cox in the clink, with five fouls each, just seven minutes into the period...
...holds some inflationary dangers of its own. Britain has the lowest productivity and most antiquated industrial plant and equipment of any major European state. A tax cut could well make British customers demand more goods and services than the country can produce, leading to a rash of domestic price increases and sucking in imports at an inflationary clip...
...gruff but avuncular authority figure, Vorster gained votes from both South Africans who want him to safeguard the country against change and those who want him to bring about change safely. In recent weeks there has been a series of incidents-a rash of daylight robberies and attacks in white suburban areas -that has had an unsettling effect on the national psyche. A bomb exploded at rush hour in Johannesburg's leading shopping complex, injuring 19 people. Two weeks ago, a National Party candidate for Parliament, Economist Robert Smit, and his wife Jeanne-Cora, were murdered in their home...
...Burial at Ornans, 1850. The nude figure in The Bathers, 1853, that pink wardrobe waddling into the forest, was a scandal; one wag dubbed it "a 45-year-old woman at the moment of washing herself for the first time in her life, in the hope of assuaging her rash." But we now see in the figure's mounds, dimples and excited brush marks one of the most majestic nudes since Rubens...