Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behavior. His other problems were itchy and only skin-deep. Under his jauntiness, there had recently been a note of weariness. His physician, Brigadier General Wallace H. Graham, announced from the yacht that the President was in "swell shape." But the President had been troubled with a nasty head rash, which showed pink above his ears and caused him to reduce the frequency of his haircuts...
Television makers were harder hit. The supply of unsold sets had mounted until Manhattan saw a rash of auction sales, where dealers tried to move sets, frequently at less than cost. To stop the pileup, makers had trimmed their weekly output from last November's rate of 218,378 sets to 82,224. But in the same period their stocks had mounted from 53,070 sets to 505,848. Sales of washing machines, refrigerators and other appliances lagged as much...
...decision was barely dry when a rash of price-cutting began on fair-traded items. Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. announced its cuts in full-page newspaper ads: "Now you can buy 5,978 'price-fixed' items at less than price-fixed prices -at Macy's." In New Jersey, Kings Super Markets slashed prices on brand products as much as 30% and promised to cut more. Grocer Charlie Hawkins of Stockton, Calif., a long-standing fair-trade enemy, chalked up his new prices, said: "The little independent guy will now be able to make competition...
Randall disclosed that the University Police have taken special steps to combat a crime wave which was on the upsurge two weeks ago. Yesterday oarsmen at Weld Boat House were still being warned to keep their lockers locked in order to stop a rash of petty thievery...
Generations of American, mothers have kept boric-acid powder in the medicine chest, believing it to be a harmless remedy for assorted ills such as eye inflammation, diaper rash or prickly heat. Last week Dr. Russell S. Fisher, Maryland's chief medical examiner, told the College cf American Pathologists that boric acid can kill...