Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Lascey's threat to bring in outside detectives was made after repeated warnings failed to stop a rash of theft in Eliot. It will not apply to the other Cliffe dormitories...
...until 1948, private construction firms had been permitted to borrow federal-backed money on a per-room basis. (By 1948, they were being granted $1,800 per room.) But now the rule was changed to let the builder borrow up to $8,100 per apartment. The result was a rash of small one-bedroom "efficiency" apartments and some gross cases of overborrowing...
Physically, Lowell is one of the most attractive Houses. In the spring, Lowell men sport about a beautiful courtyard that never fails to bring out a rash of photo enthusiasts. The library is one of the largest of the Houses and the seven squash courts are in continual demand. There are practice rooms for musical instruments and Lowell's musical bent finds outlets in the Opera given each spring and in a large record library...
...seen him make some great decisions during this past year," said the Vice President with great feeling. "I have never seen him mean; I have never seen him rash; I have never seen him impulsive . . . His only test was the one that he said he was going to use all through the campaign: what is good for America . . . I think we are lucky to have this man as President of the U.S. . . . Let's quit fighting among ourselves about an issue that all Americans should be united on. Let's join together and get behind our President...
...speech from Florida about two weeks ago, Adlai Stevenson also appeared worried about the implication of Dulles' statement. Rash use of the bomb, he feared, could catapult us into the horrors of a world war. Yet if we did not use the bomb, and were not prepared to fight Korea-type actions, we might be forced to lie idle while the communists "nibbled us to death...