Word: rife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Breslin runs-or rather walks-his hero through a premise rife with possibilities. Take Davey, in whom the mere glimpse of an as yet undertrodden black arouses sadistic impulses, and send him off to visit the ravaged ghettos of Northern Ireland, where Davey's own people curse and stone the bobby on the beat. Put him through some particularly nasty scenes of Ulster violence, cast him into the arms of a pretty young revolutionary who talks suspiciously like the Communist Antichrist every force in his past has taught him to hate...
...exposure, though, has helped some individual stars to cash in on international fame. There is no shinier soccer star in Europe than Ajax's high-scoring center forward Johan Cruyff (rhymes more or less with rife), 26, a sinewy young Dutchman with strong, quick legs and fluttering, long hair. His salary as a player-250,000 guilders a year-is among the highest in the sport...
...entire affair, even the means by which it was unearthed, is rife with people playing sneaky. The Crimson obtained the letters that revealed Gill's role and threw the fantastic case wide open because someone else must have played sneaky...
...history of the Pudding is rife with little known, tasty and insipid tidbits. Today's Pudding players would no doubt rather forget 1875's The Mischievous Nigger starring Anthony Snow in the title role. The story of 1914's road tour of Legend of Loravia is one of the funniest things to come from the Pudding--certainly far more humorous than most of the shows. One evening an informal party was held backstage before curtain time and everyone had a bit too much of his or "her" favorite beverage. As Roger S. Hewlett '33 recounted it: "When the curtain arose...
...were on the brink of the seventh day of Creation, and trembled in expectation of the Second Coming. German and Flemish painters of the 15th century turned eschatology, the study of "last things," into high art, epitomized by Jan Van Eyck's Last Judgment. The 19th century was rife with Second Coming excitements: one movement, the Millerites, eventually became the Seventh-Day Adventists. The "Millennial Dawn" group expected the end in 1914; they are now the Jehovah's Witnesses...