Word: rashness
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...school." Society members in Nashville, Tenn., started telephone campaigns to warn homeowners that some of their neighbors were suspected Reds. The project with current top priority is the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren, and activities in a dozen cities range from the "spontaneous" circulation of petitions to a rash of letters to newspapers, and a HELP IMPEACH EARL WARREN banner strung across the main street of Pampa, Texas (and taken down by the police a few hours later...
...intensive care. In mid-February they had begun to feel lethargic. Then they had developed slight fevers, headaches and sore throats. The lymph glands in their necks and armpits swelled. Medical Officer Edward C. Keene was not surprised-he would have been surprised if he had not had a rash of cases. The ailing mids were victims of infectious mononucleosis, a mysterious disease that breaks out about six weeks after infection. And infection most commonly occurs during the Christmas-New Year holidays, when a young man's fancy is to kiss his girl...
...Cordiner, we've got a complaint, we've been damaged.' We intend to resist. It will be a neat problem to prove damages." Of course, he went on. "if we've unwittingly damaged any customer anywhere, we wish to make an adjustment." He cited a rash of suits that followed G.E.'s 1949 antitrust conviction for monopolizing electric bulbs. The suits, which totaled $104 million, were settled for $1,395,000. Just in case things go against G.E. Treasurer John D. Lockton told the meeting, the giant electric company...
...kind of literary snob to appreciate parody anyway, and although we are often told solemnly that parody must be funny in itself and not just because it mocks something, it is very satisfying to recognise a small and particular bit of cleverness. Of the contemporary rash of parodies Benchley's (again) are the most effective; they are gentle and charming as his stories. One of them has H. L. Mencken reviewing George Jean Nathan, and vice-versa. Mencken on Nathan...
Dismayed Ally. In 1958 there was a rash of 18 forgeries. One, an ingeniously planted U.S. diplomatic dispatch, purportedly came from Elim O'Shaughnessy, then chief of the political section of the U.S. Embassy in Bonn. It counseled the backing of neofascist groups in West Germany that were known to be plumping for the return of Alsace-Lorraine to the fatherland. Though false, the "document" created real dismay at the Quai d'Orsai...