Word: rife
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Communism was once rife in the U. S., but not the sort preached by Earl Browder and William Zebulon Foster. A religious, not a political belief, communism was attempted in 62 U. S. communities during the 19th Century, from Massachusetts' Brook Farm to Indiana's New Harmony...
Fortnight ago Dayang Dayang returned from a visit to Manila and Sultan Wasit went to see her. Then he went home and a few days later suddenly, like his brother before him, was called to Paradise. A "doctor" said he died of heart disease, but speculation was rife as to the cause of his opportune death. Opportune it was for Princess Dayang Dayang because Sultan Wasit, like Edward VIII, had not yet been crowned, and not having been crowned, his son, Ismale, had neither the formal title of crown prince nor a clear right of succession. Thus Dayang Dayang...
...only among such snorting Oldsters in Clubland but among hard young men who count on doing as well out of the next war as their fathers did out of the last optimism was rife. Small-talk and chit-chat were of the Army's new "tank-piercing rifle" and the scandal that Czechoslovakia's "Bren" machine gun is so good that British armorers are going to have to pay huge royalties in order to lease the patents...
Colleagues of the San Francisco doctor, out of consideration for him and his wife, kept their identities secret. In consequence of that secrecy, dreadful rumor swiftly spread across the country that trichinosis was rife throughout California. In actual fact, however, the doctor and his wife were last week the only known victims of trichinosis in the State...
...political issues to the voting public of America, the editorial power such organizations are to have, the source and limitations of that power, are questions which must be settled now, and settled in such fashion that future controversies will not arise in times of political tension when chicanery is rife and idealism languishing at a low ebb. The importance of broadcasting in the present campaign has assumed a proportion it never before attained, but which is more likely to increase than decrease in the future...