Word: rife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Full-page ads appearing in magazines and newspapers across the country carry the boldface head: YOU'RE BEING ROBBED! The text explains: "Commercial flimflammery is rife throughout the nation and the American consumer is being victimized as never before." What to do about it? Subscribe, says the ad, to Moneysworth, "your own personal consumer crusader, trusted stockbroker, and chancellor of the exchequer-all in one." Some 80,000 people have already forked over $5 for a "special, introductory" one-year subscription to the fortnightly. Question is, are they getting their money's worth...
Rumors are rife on the campus that BU-which closed a week early lastspring because of a rash of false fire alarms and firebombing threats-may close within a month...
City Without Walls includes occasional verse in which Auden delights. The poet honors Fellow Poet Marianne Moore's 80th birthday, the wedding of a relative, the death of a housekeeper (". . . in a permissive age/ so rife with envy,/ a housekeeper is harder/ to replace than a lover...
...home Americans except those engaged in health services that might bring them into contact with an accidentally imported case of the disease. He would, however, continue to vaccinate young men entering the armed forces and maintain the presently required vaccination for any traveler to areas where smallpox is still rife...