Word: rashness
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...time the Bakuriani unloaded its crated cargo and returned to sea, Washington was persuaded that MiG-21s had not been delivered. One reason, indicated by Shultz, was a Soviet assurance to the contrary. Another was the information gleaned from the rash of U.S. spy-plane flights, more probably low-flying F-4 reconnaissance jets than the superfast, supersophisticated SR-71s claimed by the Sandinistas (no sonic boom from an SR-71 can be heard when the aircraft flies, as it can on spy missions, at an altitude of 15 miles or more...
...second major raid since Pinochet declared a "state of siege" on Nov. 6. The measure, adopted for the first time since 1978, came in response to a rash of bombings, labor strikes and street protests, which have become a regular feature of Chilean life since May 1983. It allows the authorities to ban all public meetings, make mass arrests, impose censorship and send the secret police ram paging through the offices of political parties and unions. In addition, the Rev. Ignacio Gutiérrez, a Spanish-born Roman Catholic priest who heads the Vicariate of Solidarity, the most active human...
...tragedy was the worst of a rash of shark attacks along the upper west coast of the U.S. since Labor Day. Paul Parsons, 33, another abalone diver, suffered puncture wounds and lost much of his left buttock when a shark mauled him in the waters north of San Francisco. Surfer Bob Rice, 25, watched in horror as a 12-ft. carnivore clamped down on the front of his surfboard before swimming away in the waves off Cape Kiwanda, Ore. Says he: "It missed my hips by about four inches...
...older issue, but no less pressing in the wake of what has recently been characterized as a rash of "insane" political violence. A judicial system that judges the sick and arms the sane simultaneously, without thinking of the two together, may well be the most frightening of judicial delusions...
...Rash of Larcenies...