Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about then that sophisticated New Yorkers knew that the Mad Bomber was not just whistling through his teeth; the sensation-loving papers cheerfully nursed the tautening nerves. Off the presses came a rash of interviews with psychologists, psychiatrists, jewelers, bomb experts, handwriting experts, cops, scientists. Columnists discoursed learnedly on the psychopathic makeup of the man who so desperately wanted recognition, speculated on everything from his childhood to his sex drives (either weak or strong, depending on the columnist). Hearst's Journal-American thoughtfully provided a do-it-yourself spread on how to make a pipe-bomb; Scripps-Howard...
...Secretary of State Dulles and other U.S. representatives were still in Paris at the NATO meeting (TIME, Dec. 24) trying to persuade the Western allies to maintain NATO's military strength, Harold Stassen met in Washington with newsmen in a confidential briefing session. From that session came the rash of news stories that seemed doubly authoritative because Harold Stassen, in his anonymity, had masked himself as the voice of U.S. policy...
...children and adults who catch it, German measles (rubella) is almost invariably a trivial infection with slight fever, sore throat and fast-disappearing rash. But contracted by a woman during pregnancy, especially in the first three months, rubella is often hideously deforming or fatal to her unborn child...
...State John Foster Dulles called it last week. The opportunity presented by Poland and Hungary, Dulles told the NATO council in Paris, was to encourage what he called the prospective "disintegration" of the Soviet system. The danger was that, harassed by such rebellions, the Russians might launch into rash and desperate foreign adventures. And the difficulty, in such a situation, was how best to help Hungary...
Listeners' complaints about radio's rash of commercial spots are no longer news, but last week the squirm turned and the howl came from a longtime sponsor. Writing "as an advertiser who has been spending over $1,000,000 annually in radio" to plug his pain-relief tablets, Dol-cin Corp.'s Board Chairman Victor van der Linde reported to MBS that he had cut his appropriation for radio spots to a piddling $100,000. Reason: the "sheer multiplicity" of plugs, including many for competing products within a few minutes of each other, proves that stations...