Word: rife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only by a vice consul and a cipher clerk, was jammed with about 400 French citizens, some 400 Cambodians who claim French blood and about two dozen foreign journalists and representatives of international organizations. According to officials in Paris, sanitary conditions within the refuge were poor, intestinal disease was rife and there were serious shortages of food, water and medicine...
...Commission investigation are almost too numerous to keep track of. From the untimely deaths of numerous witnesses, to the spiriting off of Oswald's mother by Dallas police for three days after the assassination, until after her son was killed, the circumstances surrounding the murder of the president are rife with mystery. A motorcycle policeman who was part of the president's escort and told a number of people, including reporters, that he saw Kennedy hit in the face by a bullet, was never called to testify by the Warren Commission...
Freedom has always been a relative term, rife with contradictions and particularly susceptible to abuse in meeting the immediate needs of the day. We should all remember that freedom is not just a patriotic term employed by nations to maintain their military superiority. Freedom includes the right to eat and to work at a meaningful job, the right to develop our minds to their full potential and the right to good health...
...Pope urged Arrupe to end the permissiveness of recent years. He added: "We express once again our desire, indeed our demand" that the Jesuits remain "a religious, apostolic, priestly order, linked to the Roman Pontiff by a special bond of love and service." Soon Rome was rife with rumors that Arrupe would have to resign under pressure...
...Elizabeth II proving as arbitrary and demanding as Elizabeth I? Rumors were rife in London that Richard Burton's new romance, Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, 38, had folded her dreams and stolen back to the shelter of her London house, leaving Richard alone in his Alpine chalet. The rift was said to be caused by Richard's bouts of drinking, which even visits to a faith healer had failed to cure. A friend was reported to have said: "Before Burton swept her off her feet, Elizabeth thought her husband was dull. Now she realizes she could never endure...