Word: rashness
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...classrooms, filled with youngsters poring over books and maps or making models of the solar system, even the McCormicks have been surprised by the eagerness they see. One little boy of five, who had attended a regular kindergarten, entered Adastra suffering from nightmares, constant stomach upsets and a nasty rash. Now, no longer bored, he reads, is rapidly learning Spanish, and his symptoms are gone. A girl of four kept vanishing from Adastra's kindergarten to join the first grade, would be brought back screaming: "They have books in kindergarten but just with pictures. They...
...Some obscure teams slated to be set-ups started the college basketball season with a rash of upsets: Millersville (Pa.) State Teachers beat La Salle, 90-80; little St. Norbert (West De Pere, Wis.) edged past Marquette, 49-47; Evansville (Ind.) College beat basketball-proud Louisville, 92-82; Ohio U. (Athens, Ohio) beat Indiana...
Menzel, referring to reports of unidentified objects seen all over the West and by a Coast Guard cutter in the Atlantic, said that the new rash of sightings was "no great surprise." Menzel, who says that he "can see saucers almost any night," and has repeatedly chased them in planes, classed the most recent reports as probable mirages caused by atmospheric disturbances...
...that highlights, that exults in its age. Guthrie's production is high-busted, brass-throated, old-style theater. Its smallest scene is a Big Scene; it tosses mere suicide into a scene shift. A sound playwright, Schiller begins virtually at the end-with the Queen of Scots' rash, stormy, ill-starred life behind her and the peers condemning her to death. The play itself, though aswirl with intrigue, assassination plots and lust-devoured deliverers, really turns on whether Mary's royal cousin Elizabeth will sign the death warrant. The scene shifts back and forth between Mary (Irene...
...exploration for new wells, and prices slumped sharply. With more oil than it can sell, Ohio Oil Co. shaved its bids for new supplies of Wyoming heavy crude by 8? per bbl. and Indiana Standard cut its price to Arkansas producers by 10? per bbl. At consumer levels a rash of price wars from New Orleans to New Jersey cut service station prices as low as 14.9? per gal. before taxes...