Word: rife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With political conventions less than a year away, and presidential primaries only months in the future, speculation and prediction on the fate of the GOP are rife. Despite the setback in his Dewey victory forcast in '48, Gallup feels that Truman could not stand against a popular and non-controversial Republican. Now that this party has control, albeit split control, of Congress, the time has come to put a Republican in the White House. Elsewhere Gallup, as well as other political observers, have expressed the belief that another defeat for the GOP would make way for the rise...
With political conventions less than a year away, and presidential primaries only months in the future, speculation and prediction on the fate of the GOP are rife. Despite the setback in his Dewey victory forcast in '48, Gallup feels that Truman could not stand against a popular and non-controversial Republican. Now that this party has control, albeit split control, of Congress, the time has come to put a Republican in the White House. Elsewhere Gallup, as well as other political observers, have expressed the belief that another defeat for the GOP would make way for the rise...
...total of ten 1950 line lettermen returning makes it impossible for line coach Ted Schmitt or end coach Joe Maras merely to weed out inexperience--a rife and rampant malady on this fall's squad. These ten, a handful of former substitutes and jayvees, and five promising sophomores must be woven together into a series of well-integrated lines. Lloyd Jordan has his weaving...
...there now in our English assurances, in whose subtlety and strength we have taken such quiet pride? . . . Here are no lately nationalized refugee scientists, no fly-by-night fanatics making somber rendezvous ... If there is a particle of truth in the sinister rumors and speculations which have been rife, what Mr. Hydes are masked by the agreeable Dr. Jekylls whom everybody knows and likes? . . . [What can] stem the infection which the enemy appears able to inject into the bloodstream of us all, so that brother looks sideways at brother, and the friend of thirty years, the guest at lunch party...
Rumors have been rife here that F.B.I, and armed services intelligence men have plagued Watson for information on various alumni's political affiliations when in college. But, while admitting that questions on this point have been numerous, Watson emphasized that it is not the administration's policy to release the details of a student's extra-curricular life...