Word: craze
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...crest and is beginning to ebb. Biggest area of discontent is among filling-station operators. Unlike most retailers, who can pass the stamps' cost on to the consumer in higher prices, gas stations have a price-determined product and a low profit margin. For them, the stamp craze has become a nightmare...
Every few years, a fashion gimmick sweeps locustlike out of Paris onto the fields of fad. After the "sack look" and the "trapeze line" came the craze for "culottes"-dress-length pants divided in front by a wide pleat and designed to look like skirts. This year, as the release last week of the first photographs of the Paris fall collections showed, the day of the gimmick has come again. Sequel to the culotte: skirts divided in front by a wide pleat and designed to look like pants...
...version of The Twist. The white-maned maestro played the score "tempo a la Chubby Checker" after listening to one of the tubby twister's records and checking it with a metronome. Afterward, at a local nightclub to gyre and gimbal a bit himself, Fiedler adjudged the dance craze: "It's authentic primitive Americana, not from Siberia or Laos, I don't think it's physically unattractive either...
...hope that a change in diet will prolong life is filling U.S. kitchens and men's stomachs with hitherto esoteric oils; housewives are chattering with superficial knowingness about polyunsaturated fats.* Americans get an average of 40% to 45% of their daily calories in fats, and before the cholesterol craze came along, most of the fat was saturated. Some doctors have urged simply cutting down fats, of whatever kind, to about 30% of the total caloric intake. Others have advocated substituting polyunsaturated fat for much of the saturated stuff, and worrying less about the total intake. Conservative Dr. Master adds...
...condemnation and death of Michael Servetus, a brilliant Spanish physician whose denial of belief in the Trinity made him the first modern Unitarian. Both Catholics and Protestants must share the blame for what Nigg calls "one of the most shocking periods in the history of Christianity": the craze for witch burning that swept through Europe from the 15th through the 18th centuries...