Word: rife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact," Scott writes, "the biggest problem' is to find out whom you can believe. Many people here have intimate and reliable contacts inside the German blockade and can provide direct, fresh information. But Stockholm is also rife with rumors and rumormongers who come to me with fantastic stories of intrigues and escapes-advice, warnings and obscure mutterings of all kinds...
...many places bootlegging was rife, doctors' prescriptions for medicinal alcohol up sharply...
...been discovered in a roundabout way that student morale officers (both M and F) were busy planning social affairs, but as far as anyone could find out for a long time, their net accomplishment seemed to be the cultivation of a lovely acquaintanceship with each other. Scuttlebutt was rife on the subject of who was going to entertain whom in the very hear future when on Monday evening the matey came by to ask "All secure?" and "Are you going to the tea dance to be given for us on Saturday from...
...marking system used by the Times came in for plenty of blasting in the Crimson columns, which claim that it is rife with subjectivity. "Only 15 per cent of those taking the test knew that the Times thought that America's policy toward China was "Open Door" although Fine (the man who ran the show for the Times) says that "Friendliness" would have been acceptable. Anyone who went beyond that catchword was ridiculed," the student editors commented...
...campaign also: 1) compelled the planeless, cannonless Chinese to use up some of their infantry reserves; 2) cut into one of the areas where smuggling of goods from Occupied to Free China has been most rife...