Word: spate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last British Governor called on U Nu as the only Burmese with sufficient national stature to take over the country that Britain was preparing to leave. One year later, with U Nu barely installed as the first Premier of independent Burma, his nation was seized by a spate of rebellions...
Meeting on foreign ground (Vancouver, B.C.), officials of the Pacific Coast Conference wrathfully studied the semi-amateur sins of P.C.C. members and let fly with a spate of decisions that should surely qualify as a new world record in a neglected area of intercollegiate competition: the longterm, free-style chew-out. After dusting off its half-forgotten rule book for the recruiting of athletes, the P.C.C. read the riot act to every one of the nine schools in the conference except Washington State, and punctuated the unprecedented bawling-out with the heaviest fines on record. Items...
That was enough to send many a major and minor Southern politician, including the governors of North Carolina, Georgia and Virginia, and the attorneys general of Texas, Virginia and South Carolina, into a spate of purple phrases. "I hereby defy the ruling [of] the Supreme Court," snapped C. C. Owen, president of the Alabama Public Service Commission. Yet, elsewhere in the South, e.g., in Richmond, Little Rock, Dallas, many a bus driver calmly removed signs directing Negro passengers to the rear. In the North there was a crackle of excitement: newspapers front-paged the story, and editorial writers pontificated about...
...spoke out fearlessly as a religious and political liberal. He abhorred the "psychosis" of McCarthyism; he railed against any tendency toward clerical bureaucracy. Though Christian Century Editor Hutchinson worked tirelessly for some sort of union between the divided denominations of Protestantism, he still found time to write a spate of books (Storm over Asia, World Revolution and Religion, The New Leviathan) and contribute to other magazines...
Take an Anglo-Saxon with an ailing love life and plant him under the Mediterranean sun. Will the change kill or cure him? This theme has more or less dominated a spate of recent novels, notably The Exchange of Joy (set in Italy), The Capri Letters (Italy), A Slimmer Night (Italy) and The Sea and the Stone (Greece). In The Dark Glasses the atmospheric catalyst is the Greek resort island of Corfu, and the inhibited patient is a 39-year-old crew-cut Englishman named Patrick Orde whose eleven-year marriage to a Greek woman is not so much...