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Word: bandwagons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only sour not was struck by Norman A. Hall, Alumni Bulletin editor, who commented. "The Bulletin began this parody bandwagon on Saturday. Now a lot of ninnies are trying to climb of our caboose." Charles R. Cherington '35, professor of Government, told Hall to mind his own damn business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cunning 'Parody' Prompts Giggles Before Breakfast | 3/2/1955 | See Source »

...prisoners, an abundance of consumer goods, honest art and, above all, peace. It was an obvious tactic: after a generation of Stalinist austerity and terror, the leader who could deliver these things might consolidate himself with the masses. As a matter of fact, everyone climbed on the "new life" bandwagon, including Khrushchev himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Voice of Inexperience | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...women students here since 1932," said Pope. "I'm glad Harvard is getting on the bandwagon. It's a forward-looking move...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Divinity Head Praises Coeducation | 1/22/1955 | See Source »

...pointedly: "I hope this will once and for all remove from the minds of all any confusion as to how specific the U.S. atoms-for-peace proposition is." Perceptibly, enthusiasms quickened. Russia's Andrei Vishinsky stopped mocking and began acting like a man scared to death that the bandwagon would leave without him. Next day Britain added a contribution of 20 kilograms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE UNITED NATIONS: Future Power | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

Bevan had suffered a humiliating and probably a final defeat in his dramatic drive to capture the Labor Party from the moderates. "The strange alliance of Bevanites, pacifists, nonconformists, free-elections-and-reunification-firsters, anti-Germans, carpetbaggers and bandwagon-jumpers and lunatic-fringers was shattered [at Scarborough] and became once more disparate and unhomogeneous," said the Manchester Guardian."This issue was for [Bevan] a gift from the gods, and he failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Genius in the Gutter | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

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