Word: rashness
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Since the assassination riots, according to the city's public safety director, Patrick Murphy, crime is up 15%. In the worst slums, cowed businessmen reported a rash of burglaries, fires and extortionist threats. Four shopkeepers were murdered in three weeks. Most serious of all was the situation on the city's buses. Two weeks ago, Bus Driver John Talley was shot and killed by a band of Negro youths, climaxing a wave of nearly 250 holdups so far this year...
...psychedelic. Only the message is different: against free love and drugs, for the draft and the war in Viet Nam. One article draws a parallel between the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 and the current alliance of New Leftists and black militants; another charges that the rash of violence on U.S. campuses is Communist-inspired and part of "Mickey Mao's trap." A comic-strip hero called Super Square participates in such right-wing victories as the resignation of Defense Secretary McNamara and the downfall of Che Guevara. His identity, however, is a mystery. Square asks...
...himself in his office and works on his weekly column, for which he won the Pulitzer. Although he is a conservative, he has been a consistent opponent of the Viet Nam war; for the past year, he has written about little else. He is blunt-crusty, even-but never rash. As a man who does not hesitate to speak his own mind, he has made it a firm policy to let others speak theirs...
Roszak, chairman of the History of Western Culture program at California State College, said that "until the recent rash of campus protest related to the Vietnam war, nothing has so characterized the American academic as a condition of entrenched social irrelevance, so highly developed that it would be comic if it were not sufficiently serious in its implications to stand condemned as an act of criminal delinquency...
...nationwide telephone strike -first in 21 years-moved into its third week, it had produced little more than some annoying static in phone service. Beyond a rash of minor sabotage that damaged cables and equipment, the only major effect was a suspension of new phone installations as Bell System companies kept skeleton repair crews close to central offices. Filling in for striking operators, gravel-voiced executives on twelve-hour switchboard shifts were all thumbs at first, but by week's end most were well on the way to mastering their temporary tasks...