Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close to the pulse of the United Nations, can be well pleased with the state of their patient's health. Still an infant--unable to stand without the aid of its powerful parents--more inclined to emitting peculiar noises than to action--the United Nations has weathered its first rash of childhood diseases. If its environment remains favorable it will grow to a healthy maturity...
...instance, is not sharply divided, like India, along religious lines. Burmese are a homogeneous people, with a relatively high literacy rate (61% for males, 17% for females). Yet this fall, as Governor Sir Hubert Ranee tried hard to set up a native government, the Burmese broke out in a rash of major strikes and riots. Disturbances crystallized last month into violently opposed factions, one led by a former Japanese puppet, U Aung San, the other by a self-styled Communist, U Than Tun. These two young (31) men have similar political and personal backgrounds; in fact, they married sisters. Last...
Nobody would have been surprised if the National Association of Manufacturers had broken out in a rash of antiunionism. With the headlines still smoking with the coal crisis, the 4,000 NAMsters who met last week in Manhattan's plush Waldorf-Astoria Hotel had a good right to be sorely provoked by organized labor...
...Dunster for third position in the House league at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Lowell left the gridiron 90 minutes later deadlocked with Leverett for second place, after taking the Funsters into camp, 7 to 0. Eliot, unable to score in its last four contests, broke loose with a rash of touchdowns to down Dudley...
Discussion of both the twin degrees and of the college's standards will appear on many sides and from several quarters before the impending faculty vote. Consistency is imperative, yet rash decision may force the intellectual price of a degree down to firesale levels. Those who would study the problem and the faculty members who must live with it must create order out of the chaos which will lead to the objectives which education has found for itself in a free society...