Word: crazed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Battle as all sport, a new form of fun and games. And it drove home one important lesson: the Battle is big money. Yes that is what will stick; the Movement soon will be Big Business. Riggs is no dummy. He has secured the popularity of the latest national craze...
While the talks went on, Beirut remained under martial law. At the end of the dusk-to-dawn curfew, traffic snarled into monster tangles at checkpoints, as soldiers scanned cardboard lists of suspect license numbers. Crowds were forbidden to gather, and even the pinball parlors (the latest craze in Beirut) were closed. In a government security drive, scores of people were arrested. The government also deported hundreds of foreigners, mostly Syrians, who lacked residence permits...
...prove that eating glass had nothing to do with meanness. He unscrewed the bulb from a nearby lamp and ate it. The kooky stunt so pleased him and his audience that Bennett, 21, has since consumed a dozen bulbs. He has also set off-the campus' most bizarre craze since Lothrop Withington Jr. swallowed a live goldfish at the Freshman Union...
Serpico, the latest entry; will probably do as well. There are more to come, including a new book in September by Joseph Wambaugh, the Los Angeles police sergeant who started the current cop craze with his novels The New Centurions and The Blue Knight. Like all good young trends, the police book has moved east from the West Coast. All three of the newest books involve the New York City police department...
...didn't think it was a craze we wanted to export from Harvard," he explained. Epps said he did not request a demonstration of the practice from the students, and that he had "no desire" to eat lightbulbs himself...