Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Order. The change touched off such a rash of punditing and often conflicting views that Scripps-Howard Columnist Frederick C. Othman wrote: "One consolation about this Malenkov blowup in Moscow is the undisputed fact that I personally know as much about it as any of the alleged Russian experts...
...book was followed by a rash of reports about tiny red Martians tumbling out beside an Italian farmhouse, a long-legged, long-haired spaceman chasing two Norwegian milkmaids across a field, and little green men landing in France wearing plastic helmets, orange corsets or Cellophane wrappers. Now a 32-year-old British thrilier-writer, amateur stargazer and bird watcher named Cedric Allingham reveals that he bumped into a six-foot Martian last Feb. 18 on a lonely Scottish moor not far from where the Loch Ness monster used to sport...
...there were no casualties, but the region was in a tizzy for a while. There were wild rumors that invisible radioactive clouds would make people sterile. Children were kept indoors, and every stomachache was blamed on infiltering atoms. When kids at St. George (pop. 4,562) showed a trifling rash, Utah's health commissioner flew from Salt Lake City to investigate. The disease proved to be German measles, but St. George officials broadcast warnings for residents to stay off the streets. When apprehension was at its height, well-meaning AECmen stopped motorists on the lonely road between Las Vegas...
...time has been reached . . . when it is no longer defensible to fail to take a stand. We must use all our wits and our patience, all our reasonableness and cour age ... In particular we [must] not fight fire with fire. Freedom is too precious to deserve rash or stupid support...
...Chinese announcement-on the same day that the U.S. airmen were convicted-that they would release a Canadian flyer also captured during the Korean war (see THE HEMISPHERE). The Communists figured that Washington would scream with indignation; Britain and France would interpret this as a further evidence of rash American bellicosity and back away, thus weakening the chances of a European agreement on German rearmament...