Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should be rash and blameworthy were we to attempt to solve the problem of European unity by any violent stroke. The only unity that might come might be a unity of ashes and death...
...fourth day, desperation crept into the column: "First thing this morning, the John in the kids' bathroom got stopped up. Everybody had to use Mommy's and Daddy's. This is like rerouting rush-hour traffic over a goat path." Baby Ned had developed diaper rash, Melina was running a slight temperature. Sally would not eat her oatmeal, and it had looked like rain; so the wash had to be hung in the garage. Admitted the columnist: "My efficiency rating took a nose dive. I failed to get dinner started. I got the kids to bed fifteen...
Pillar of Learning. In Garber, Okla., the editors of the Free Press, who had moved to a new office, apologized for a rash of misspellings in recent editions of the newspaper: "Please excuse. Most of the words we use frequently and cannot spell are written correctly on the wall in our old location...
Ever since the story of medicine began to move from obscure technical journals into the popular press, doctors and newsmen have clashed over what medical news was fit to print. As a result, the feud has often broken out in a rash of errors and ill feeling. To clear up the sore spots between physicians and reporters, Dr. Francis T. Hodges, a general practitioner who also edits the California-Western Academy Monthly, wrote out a prescription in the current issue...
...visitors gone, Nehru spoke. The SEATO conference in Karachi "confirmed our worst apprehensions," he told the Indian Parliament, by recommending settlement of the Indo-Pakistani dispute over Kashmir. Said he: "A military alliance is backing one country, namely Pakistan, in its dispute with India." He pointed to the sudden rash of skirmishes on the Pakistan border. These show, he said, that Pakistan wants U.S. arms not to deter an aggressor but to settle its disputes with India "from a position of strength." Arming of Pakistan poses "a terrible problem" for India: it will force India to spend money on defense...