Word: spate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time: possibly a few weeks from now. The negotiations in Paris have been successful, and a cease-fire has been declared in Viet Nam. But instead of peace, there is a spate of small-scale skirmishes as both sides make a frenzied rush to claim contested land. Every day there are reports of assassinations-of both South Vietnamese government officials and suspected Communist sympathizers. Almost every town in the land is subjected to a cacophony of demonstrations, celebrations and parades. There is also a deadly serious war of flags, as each side plants its banners in as many villages...
...fantasy of a tall intruder in evening clothes bending over the naked bosom of a sleeping maiden must have been delicious. He might have gone further. The Middle Ages believed matter-of-factly in vampires, and the 19th century was thrilled by fictional ones. There has been a small spate of vampire books and films of late, but except as a soggy bit of low camp, Dracula is not really a monster for our times. We lack the peasant theology for one kind of belief, and the right kind of sexual snarls for the other...
...stunning decision, a ruling that the Government is obliged to perform the same services for urban Indians-nearly one-half of all American Indians-as it does for reservation dwellers. That decision, binding only in the West, where most Indians still live, could be the stimulus for a spate of demands by Indians across the country...
...Masters discussions on sex began when President Bok, irked by a spate of letters from concerned parents who suspected that illicit goings on were occurring here, asked them to figure out what the rules are about students cohabitation, whether these rules are being broken, and what could be done to enforce them...
VOTERS did not just go to the polls to choose among candidates; they also tackled a thorny and controversial spate of referendums and state constitutional amendments. These issues?the fine print on the ballot?have an un-happy tradition of being so complicatedly framed as to leave even the most dutiful voter often confused. In Washington State, for example, voters were faced with an all time record of 24 of these measures. Yet the sentiment on these local issues often provides a mirror of what matters to Americans. That seemed especially true this year in the approval of a wide...