Word: rashness
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What has agitated Kahane and his followers is the rash of anti-Jewish statements made by some extremists, both black and white, during the past year...
Perhaps our most important and pressing conclusion is that rash legislative action cutting off funds to entire institutions because of the action of a minority of students would play directly into the hands of those hard-core revolutionaries. Legislation which treats innocent and guilty alike inadvertently confirms extremist charges that "establishment" is repressive ad indifferent to citizen needs and concerns. We must not put ourselves in the position of aiding the handful of anarchists...
...Industrial Organizations with Lewis as president. The C.I.O. extended unionization to the unskilled and semiskilled, organizing by industry instead of by trade. After rapid successes enrolling steel and auto workers, the union was firmly established. In 1937 Lewis had his first serious altercation with Franklin Roosevelt, triggered by a rash of "Little Steel" strikes. During one of them, in Chicago, police shot and killed ten workers. When Roosevelt was asked what he thought of the continuing management-labor clashes, he replied: "A plague on both your houses...
Long Unsuspected. For virtually every human being outside the womb, rubella is a trivial complaint. It usually causes a mild fever, a fleeting rash, a slight headache, occasionally a cough and a sore throat. Some cases are so mild that they pass unnoticed, yet all apparently confer lifelong immunity. Unlike mumps and common measles, rubella seldom evokes severe ill ness in the 20% of people who escape it in childhood and catch it as adults...
...brought Hawkins all the peace and quiet he might have expected. For one thing, several R. & B. stations have refused to play Oh Happy Day on their soul shows because they regard gospel as too sacred for dancing. For another, the success of Oh Happy Day has spawned a rash of imitators. The biggest shock of all, however, is that two of Hawkins' soloists have quit and gone out on their own. One of them, Betty Watson, has even organized her own group, taken the old name of Hawkins' chorus, and agreed to appear at the West Coast...