Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...election Wallace, in victory, swiftly rewarded Alabama's Blacks for their crucial support, appointing two Blacks to his Cabinet and supported the appointment of four other Blacks to committee chairmanships in the Alabama Legislature. That a new day is dawning for Blacks in Alabama politics may be a rash prediction, but rejection by more than 30 percent of Alabama Black voters of civil rights leaders' preference for a recognizable white liberal candidate in the gubernatorial primary does alter some old assumptions and conventional wisdom about Black politics...
...cancer and other ailments among the soldiers and genetic defects in their children. Dow has resolutely denied the charges. In a television interview, Dow President Paul F. Oreffice said, "There is absolutely no evidence of dioxin doing any damage to humans, except something called chloracne. It's a rash...
...marauding dropped off sharply last fall, making the Mugabe government believe that the guerrillas were running low on ammunition. The latest rash of crimes has led Zimbabwe to point a finger at the white minority government of neighboring South Africa. Emmerson Munangagwa, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office for Security, accused South Africa last week of training a "Matabele brigade" with the ultimate aim of destabilizing the Mugabe government. South Africa dismissed the charge as ridiculous, but diplomats in Harare are not sure. Says a Western official: "It's not in South Africa...
...rash of headlines appeared in national publications earlier this fall, when federal auditors charged that Harvard owed the U.S. government $1.7 million in research funds, which they said the University had mismanaged and accounted for poorly...
Johnson bragged crudely about many liaisons after his 1934 marriage to Lady Bird Taylor, but about Alice he was as silent, Caro writes, "as a young man in love." And uncharacteristically rash: Marsh, the owner of several Texas newspapers and one of Johnson's most influential patrons, was someone he could hardly afford to cross. Luckily for Lyndon, Marsh never caught on. The author quotes a witness to the affair: "That was the only time-the only time-in Lyndon Johnson's whole life that he was pulled off the course that he had set for himself...