Word: rashness
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...Scratching only spreads it. The old-fashioned treatment was heroic: sulfur ointment-which often caused another kind of skin eruption-and boiling sheets! and clothes (now known to be unnecessary) every time they were used. In recent years dermatologists have been curing itchers with benzyl benzoate, which causes less rash. They are now experimenting with a concoction of DDT, benzyl benzoate to kill the mites and a secret ingredient which kills the eggs, in the skin-deep burrows...
...factories. In strike-stormy Detroit, cops clashed with labor-union men picketing a meeting of Rabble-rouser Gerald L. K. Smith's followers, and men went down under blows of swinging nightsticks. High-school children in New York City, Chicago and Gary, Ind., swirled out in a rash of protests, racial disputes and wholesale hooliganism (see EDUCATION...
Haves & Have-Nots. The most optimistic of coaches was George Hunger of Pennsylvania, lone Ivy Leaguer rash enough to schedule both Army and Navy. He had a letterman line anchored on 250-lb. Tackle George Savitsky and a G.I. backfield starring ex-Air Corpsman Bob Evans, ex-Sergeant Don Schneider and ex-Army Fullback Farquahr Jones. Of Army and Navy, Coach Munger boasted: "We'll beat one of them. Wanna...
...Stand Corrected." General Vaughan turned to the subject of women: "I made a very rash statement before the commanding officer of the WACs. I said I didn't think of any job being done by the WACs that cannot be performed by 4-Fs at less cost. I also made that statement to General Eisenhower, but he disagreed with me, so I stand corrected...
With the murders came a rash of rumors, cranks and pranks. A note pinned up in a public lavatory boasted about the murders over the signature, "Slasher Evans." A young Detroit girl received a phone call threatening her life. One fearful insomniac sought police protection because he heard mysterious noises in the night. Every prostrate drunk brought forth a murder rumor. Mystic-minded citizens noted that all the murders had occurred under a full moon...