Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...family of nations. And yet, like the prewar U.S. isolationists, they hate to admit it. That was why suggestions that Canada sign the hemispheric defense treaty drawn up at Petropolis (see LATIN AMERICA) were so embarrassing. The thought of joining with the Pan American Union set off a rash of Canadian rationalization...
...confused with an earlier Yankee Murderers' Row (Ruth, Gehrig, Meusel and Lazzeri), whose club banged out 158 home runs in 1927.**Last week, two other National League teams caught the fence-busting fever and broke out in a rash of home runs. In one game, the Stv Louis Cards and Pittsburgh Pirates hit ten between them, tying the major-league record...
Boomerang? At least part of Hollywood's movie community was not nearly so angry as Representative Worley. There were many, particularly among independent producers, who considered the Johnston Office's action too rash. A prolonged dearth of U.S. films, they thought, might give the British industry an opportunity to cop the home market for good...
Those who tried swimming in the infected water complained of breaking out in a rash. Strangely, no sea birds wheeled and screamed over the decaying mass. They had disappeared...
...clock a rash of worried whispering broke out among the officials. An announcement followed. At the last minute the gas workers, in charge of blowing up the bags, had gone on strike. The last four balloons were left at the post...