Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famed agony column of London's Times: "Would like to hear from people who dislike Americans and their reasons why. Please write Box R. 543." The ad produced not only 209 replies from as far away as California and Iraq and two columns for Buchwald,* but a rash of new ads putting Anglo-American relations to the test on both sides of the Atlantic...
After the first rash of headlines, the U.S.-publicly and officially-took the announcement as it should have been taken: calmly. Old Soldier Dwight Eisenhower took note of the Communists' "boastful statement." NATO's Commanding General Lauris Norstad noted tersely that the Russians had made blackmail threats before, had failed before. "Then," he said, "the alliance was unshaken, even unimpressed. So it will...
...desperately driven taxis, popularly known as "kamikazes." To enforce the law in their burgeoning metropolis, Tokyoites have the services of 22,334 policemen (now equipped with nightsticks and U.S.-made .38-cal. revolvers instead of swords). One of the police force's biggest headaches: a spreading rash of crimes of violence by the spiv and Teddy-boy element of the city's 350,000 students, whose favorite weapons are knives and bicycle chains...
...Soldier Moves Up. The rise of Marshal Zhukov, the only real fighting man (except the ancient Voroshilov) admitted to the top Presidium of the party, gave rise to a rash of headlines and a flurry of commentators' speculations on the key role of the Red army. But U.S. specialists on Soviet affairs do not go so far: they point out that Zhukov was just one of five alternates who automatically moved up to fill a vacancy; had the army exacted a special price for its support of Khrushchev, some other marshal would presumably have moved up to alternate...
...doctor thought he saw a disturbing symptom. When he was a college lad, "the four-minute mile was as unlikely as flying to the moon." but nowadays it is only a little better than par for the course. "The recent rash of four-minute milers is no coincidence," darkly concluded Dr. Herbert Berger, chairman of New York State Medical Society's Subcommittee on Addiction to Alcohol and Narcotics, as he stood last week before this year's convention in New York City of the American Medical Association (see MEDICINE...