Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond the Call. In Sacramento, after being bothered for four years by a rash which hospitalized him four different times, Staff Sergeant Donald W. Arrington took his pre-discharge physical examination, learned that he is allergic to khaki...
What were the mysterious blips? The Air Force, unless it was trying to conceal some mysterious gadget of its own (e.g., a radar countermeasure), was as baffled as everyone else. As might be expected, the phantom invasion touched off a whole new rash of flying-saucer stories. But if the men from Mars were really overhead, the oddest part of the whole strange story was the fact that among all the conflicting reports, no radar outside of a ten-mile radius in Washington reported seeing anything unusual at any time...
...page indictment in the criminal court at Versailles. It told a tragic story of boredom and bankruptcy, of bonds lying loose in a treasury vault at Arras, and of a hero who had found neither peace nor prosperity in victory. His substance wasted in extravagant living and rash business deals, De Récy's lust for adventure had led him into a conspiracy with four accomplices to steal the bonds. Soon afterward, the thieves had had a falling out. One of them was picked up trying to cash in the bonds...
After the rash of Kefauver-inspired moving pictures, it is a distinct pleasure to welcome a film which deals with some of the seamier sides of misdirected reform movements...
...Atomic City, made in 24 days for $500,000, is one of a new rash of low-cost pictures (Confidence Girl, the Captive City, The Narrow Margin) known in the trade as "cheapies." Most cheapies are made by independent producers who can cut corners because, unlike a big studio, they have no overhead and no expensive stars under contract. Sometimes they concentrate on a good story and often they get a look of reality by shooting against actual backgrounds...