Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite a rash of recent criticism, Quincy House residents have voiced almost unanimous satisfaction with their much-discussed mural. A poll published in the Quincy Mascle shows that most students are willing to keep the work, a few are enthusiastic about its merits, and only a negligible minority wish to have it removed...
...scab on a festering sore that hinders imaginative teaching." Twelve parents promptly hired him to tutor their children. Scholar Jacques Barzun, provost of Columbia University, wrote a warm personal note: "In a period when the rarity of good teaching is notorious and likely to increase, it is a rash administrator who would dismiss a competent and reliable teacher solely on the ground of not following to the letter a secondary obligation in the form of paper work...
...nonpartisan on parties, passionately partisan on issues. Founding Editor Wilson argued spiritedly for free trade, and his successors have pounded relentlessly against import quotas, for the convertibility of sterling, for lower tariffs and more foreign aid. In 1956 the Economist rebuked Sir Anthony Eden, then Prime Minister, for his rash invasion of the Suez; it has challenged Britain's decision to stay out of the European Common Market, and strongly questioned the wisdom of diplomacy by summit conference...
...point; in team work, in punting and drop-kicking, and, in many cases, in individual playing. Yet Yale, by a combination of good luck, and questionable decisions of the officials of the game, not only defeated Harvard, but had some points to spare..." The contest was marked by a rash of injuries, mostly to Harvard men. Indignation was widespread for a long time afterwards...
...themselves are a case in point. For years, the nation's TV critics flayed the quiz programs as phony, valueless, and taste-degrading entertainment ("Immoral!" cried Jack Gould of the New York Times). But aside from an occasional dark hint, the television newsmen notably failed to expose the rash of fixing that had been taking place under their uplifted noses. They were thus left with the meager consolation that their abstract judgment had been correct-even though nobody seemed to be listening when they tendered...