Word: rife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jewish organizations outside Poland are disturbed by reports that the survivors are still being harassed, that anti-Semitism is still rife. Some of the feeling is purely economic; that is, resentment at Jews returning from exile to claim houses, shops, land, livestock, tools. But most Jews in Poland have nothing left. It was reported, early this month, that an average of 200 Jews a day were slipping into the Anglo-U.S. zones in Austria. Many of them were young and relatively healthy, and some wanted to go to Palestine (see INTERNATIONAL) for a new start...
...scene is a workers' club in a slum rife with Jack-the-Ripper murders; the stranger is an egotistical, foreign-born young cobbler (Eduard Franz) who is suspected of committing them. But from the outset he is made to seem so guilty that you never for a second doubt his innocence. Hence there is little suspense. With all the murders occurring off stage, there is even less excitement. And for all the flaring gaslight, there is no disturbing atmosphere. The play's long suit, indeed, is talk. But the orating of the workers, the gabbling...
...world rife with many injustices, it is hard to single out any one as being worse than another, yet the action of a Hood, Ore. American Legion Post in erasing from the town's honor roll the names of 16 Japanese-American servicemen seems to me particularly blameworthy (TIME...
...world rife with war and hate, in a nation rife with racial prejudice and discrimination, your story [TIME, Nov. 20] of interracial medicine at Harlem's Sydenham Hospital comes as the most encouraging evidence of social progress of which I have heard for a long time. Thanks for telling us about it. Perhaps social progress is not a myth, as I had begun to fear...
Harvard's Psychologist Gordon Allport, in a quiet, unpublished study of Cambridge "morale," had found the town, which is 77% Irish Catholic, rife with Coughlinism, antiSemitism, Anglophobia...