Word: rife
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...could spy on Rewald. Barnes said the agency had then ordered him to kill the banker. ABC later admitted it could not substantiate the story. In 1988, after Barnes published a book about his adventures in Laos, the Defense Intelligence Agency released a rare public statement calling the work "rife with total fabrications" and denying that Barnes had ever worked for any federal intelligence agency...
...atmosphere up there in Connecticut is so rife with rage against me. So it's possible this emerged from that. But it also could have been made up intentionally...
...acquaintance's early death would have reduced him to tears a few years ago. Now he hears such news matter-of- factly, numbly, without flinching. He replenishes his sensitivity by leaving the U.S. on vacation two or three times a year, always to places where AIDS is far less rife and the disease is not apt to come up in conversation...
...Sanskrit title derives from two words: turanga, meaning flowing time, movement or rhythm; and lila, or love, sport, the play of the gods. The symphony's 10 movements, which last well over an hour, are rife with programmatic references to the ancient Celtic love story of Tristan and Iseult, to the myths of ancient India, even to the spooky stories of Edgar Allan...
...mention of health problems, although he has a history of coronary trouble and tuberculosis. He did not hint at a falling-out with Chancellor Helmut Kohl, although over the years they have had many disagreements. And he disavowed interest in another high-profile post, although rumors are rife that he longs to cap his political career with the German presidency. Some analysts reasoned that Genscher, Germany's most popular and peripatetic politician, knew he had shepherded his projects of European integration and East-West rapprochement as far as they could go. With the days of checkbook diplomacy ending...