Word: rashness
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...Rutgers professors asked, "Are we to be discredited by the rash complaints of an anonymous person who had 'glanced' at the pages that required years of training and experience, and months of composition on our part?" As if in answer, the Legionaires increased their pressure, until the College dropped the book. Encouraged by this success, they began a campaign to ban "Basic Economics" from the other forty colleges and universities that used...
...benefit of rests during quorum calls. The preMorse record for talking longest without quorum calls (as Morse did) was held by Louisiana Senator Allen Ellender (12 hr. 20 min., in 1949). †Of such legislative shenanigans, the elder Henry Cabot Lodge once observed: "To vote without debating may be ... rash, but to debate and never vote is imbecility...
...Student Council last night condemned rash student action against congressional investigations of universities and pointedly refused to send a voting representative to a Greater Boston colleges committee set up primarily to agitate against the Jenner Committee...
...Rash Venture. In Santa Rosa, Calif., Store Executive Charles DeMore good-naturedly helped Boy Scout Troop 25 set up a camping scene exhibit in his display window as part of a citywide contest, spent the next two days in bed nursing a head-to-toe poison-oak rash, learned that the exhibit had won the first prize for, among other things, "realism...
...rash of records fell in the 50-yard freestyle, as Eli sprinter Kerry Donovan streaked to first place in a sizzling 0:22.5 seconds. He broke the Yale, EISL, and Harvard Pool records by three-tenths of a second. The previous records were five hours old, since Donovan's 0:22.8 performance had eclipsed the old mark of 0:22.9 in yesterday afternoon's trial heats...