Word: aura
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aura E. Severinghaus of Columbia Medical School, who presented the report to the convention, said that the study had pointed up the "existing conflict between vocational and liberal education...
...friends, searching for incriminating documents. And although Cheddi Jagan, ex-prime minister, and his fellow ministers were fired for what amounts to treason, there have been no official charges against them. So, England has dissolved the legally elected Guianan government without formally accusing it of more than possessing an aura of Communism...
...Journal (circ. 46,023) and its sister the Evening Bulletin (142,658) have won a reputation as the "journalistic conscience of New England." But they do more than bring wrongdoers to the bar. By giving their readers a blend of New York Times-like coverage, combined with the reflective aura of Boston's Atlantic Monthly and the hominess of the Martha's Vineyard Gazette, they have become the best and most respected New England dailies...
...Dubious Service. The aura of invincibility that now surrounds McCarthy owes something to Senator McCarthy himself, not a man to discourage reports of his own prowess. But the McCarthy myth was not created by parthenogenesis. It was busily fertilized not only by McCarthy, but by one notable group of McCarthy's enemies: the apologists for the New and Fair Deals...
...line came to be accepted far outside the originating circle of McCarthy's Fair Deal enemies. Later, liberal commentators expanded this to say that McCarthy eliminated six other Senators who opposed him. A man who can defeat seven U.S. Senators is a power, and thus McCarthy's aura of invincibility began. By the end of 1951, the myth of McCarthy's power had reached the point where even journalists with no ax to grind had to cover McCarthy closely and seriously...