Word: rife
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...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...
...Profiteering, political apathy . . . distrust of the Americans and lack of faith in an ultimate United Nations victory are rife in French Morocco, where the political and economic situation parallels that of Algeria, but is intensified by the dictatorial character of Resident General Auguste Nogues' regime. . . . French Morocco is a confused, dizzy country, where the American flag flies near concentration camps and French collaborationists form an inter-Allied club and mix freely with American officers...
...this startling sobriety: hard training makes hangovers all but unendurable; strict penalties for drunkenness (30 days in the guardhouse at Randolph Field); liquor curfew hours in some towns adjacent to camps; sale of 3.2 beer in camp canteens (in World War I camps were bone dry and bootlegging was rife...
...their drills, which are usually held in the evenings, the Auxiliary Police are trained in marching rife formations, the technique of making an arrest, and elementary first aid. Military drill instills the sense of cohesion in the unit and gives the police the same advantage in riots that a regiment of regulars has against untrained men in warfare...