Word: rashness
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...months away from a hard-won geology degree at California State College at Los Angeles, blew up. He crushed the letter into a ball, jammed it into his pocket and stamped out of the house. His mother shouted after him, "Be careful, Gary! Don't do anything rash." Furious, he climbed into his Volkswagen, rocketed the little car around the block a couple of times until he had calmed down slightly, then roared off to his draft board office to spill his spleen. "I was upset," he recalls. "And mad. And depressed...
...Illinois who complained that she did not feel well, was advised by telephone to take aspirin, and was dead within the hour. There was the Washington child with the crushed hand that no doctor would agree to see until a neighbor promised to pay for treatment. There was the rash that expensively baffled two experts-until the lady in question discovered bedbugs. Though such examples are exceptions, the profession itself admits enough errors to give people pause. Doctors confess that too many unnecessary operations are performed-at attractive fees. After a study of 6,248 hysterectomies, Dr. James C. Doyle...
Three Harvard astronomers last night told a national TV audience that the rash of sightings of unidentified flying objects are optical illusions and religious mysticism...
...retarded, near Conway, Ark., the inmates were housed 16 to a cottage and could be easily isolated. With the parents' consent, the researchers injected the vaccine into eight girls in one cottage, left the other eight unvaccinated for comparison. The first eight developed antibody but no fever or rash; the other eight were unaffected -in other words, the vaccinated children did not spread an infectious virus. Later tests in Arkansas have raised the vaccinated total to 34, with similar results, and the vaccine, although admittedly still experimental, is now being distributed to several university medical centers for confirmatory trials...
...appointed themselves the executive committee) that the Loeb Faculty advisers would only deal with them, and not with an elected group. In return, the HDC, then substantially in debt, was offered enough benefit performances to bail itself out; free tickets to Loeb shows for HDC members; and a rash of other promises that never panned...