Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with their bodies, whole castes and communities engage in prostitution, and the government's long war against the profession has met with singular lack of success. When the state of Bengal tried to shut down brothels after World War II, it merely found itself confronted with a sudden rash of "Bath and Massage Clinics." Now much the same story seemed to take place again. Outside New Delhi's Parliament building 75 sari-clad young women protested to M.P.s, in a classic argument used by shady ladies everywhere, that to close red-light districts would be to make respectable...
Striking CBS TV and radio technicians, whose walkout led to a rash of bloopers perpetrated by their amateur replacements (TIME, April 21), voted at week's end to go back to work at cameras, mike booms, control panels. Some 1,300 members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers won an 8.8% pay hike in two step-ups (to a base wage of $190 a week next year), plus an assurance from CBS that video tape-the instant TV recording medium feared by the union as a major job threat-will be handled for the network only...
Only in the first scene can there be any avil with Scott. Here Lear emerges as a hard old man, virile and violent, and with only occasional traces of madness or senility. It is difficult to conceive of this Lear surrendering any part of his kingdom; he is a rash old reprobate living out his life at the top of his lungs...
...answer that airmen dislike but the one they may be forced to by CAB's painful delay is a return to subsidy. Either that, or the industry may see a rash of mergers, leading off with Northeast, which won the rich New York-Florida run last year and still lost $1,000,000 in the first quarter of 1958. National might merge with Northeast to eliminate a rival on the Florida route. Delta and American could also gain entry, help solve their own problems by taking over the struggling line...
...spot, the soldiers found a 22-year-old girl named Djamila Bouhired sprawled in the narrow street, with a bullet wound in the shoulder. In her possession were various F.L.N. documents linking her to Yacef Saadi, the rebel "Captain of Algiers," who had been terrorizing the city with a rash of bombs planted in cafes, milk bars, and litter baskets...