Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...popping corks that celebrated the agreement, the British battle over membership is, in a sense, only beginning. Some Tory Cabinet Ministers forecast a 150-vote majority for British entry into the Market when the question is put to Commons in the fall. But that could prove a very rash prediction. The average Briton is still afraid of the EEC's high food prices and fearful of losing British sovereignty to the Brussels-based Eurocracy. Britain's most powerful trade union leaders are dead set against the EEC. The pressures already are so great that the Labor Party...
...mail flooded in Senator Eagleton's was running three to one against, thus giving him the go-ahead to vote Carswell down. A rash of civil rights groups, grass-roots organizations, and labor unions came out against the judge. Judge Elbert Tuttle from Carswell's Fifth District Court refused to testify on behalf of the nominee. The Chairmen, past and present, of the American Bar Association and other members of the Legal Establishment wrote a letter, the Rosenman letter, denouncing Carswell. A group of liberal Republicans not welcome on the White House doormat, the Wednesday Club, egged one another...
Signs of Worry. Next week, when 7,000,000 Italians go to the polls in local elections in Rome, Genoa, Sicily and other areas throughout the country, the M.S.I, is expected to be the beneficiary of a backlash vote in response to the rash of recent disorders. Not that the neo-Fascists are about to take over city hall-anywhere. Their hopes lie rather in denying a majority to the Christian Democrats and their coalition partners, forcing the party instead to look to the right to form coalitions. The Christian Democrats insist that they will never team up with...
Going into the Belmont, the tune had changed. Reggie Cornell, the trainer of Eastern Fleet, would not even enter his horse. "Not me," he said. "I'll let somebody else chase that cannon-ball." Nevertheless, a lot of somebodies decided to try-especially after a skin rash and an infected hoof caused Cañonero to miss two days of training. By post time, the field had grown to 13; nine of the horses Cañonero had never met before, including a speedy bay colt named Pass Catcher who had registered two firsts and a second...
Rich, original, rash and rational Stands the monument Ogdenational...