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