Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colloquialisms evolve slowly. "Jag," "tops," "dude" stayed around for decades before they began to lose their freshness. But jazz lingo becomes obsolescent almost as fast as it reaches the public ear. A term of high approbation in the swing era was "out of this world," in the bop era it was "gone," and today it is "the greatest" or "the end." Similarly, a daring performance was "hot," then "cool," and now is "far out." These are the terms currently most often used by modern jazz addicts: ball, n. A good time; having a ball; enjoying oneself...
...give their own Administration-the G.O.P. will not be able to make 1956 campaign capital from legislation driven through by Democrats. Where there is disagreement with Administration policy, the majority should exercise its investigative power to probe and air out issues. But it should not be needlessly obstructive. The era when an opposition majority can safely hamstring an administration is long past. It the Democrats are worthy of complete victory in 1956, they must first show, in the next two years, that they will not put party polities above the national interest...
...will decide whether the enormous investigating enthusiasm of their federal legislators will be turned against Democrats or against Republicans over the next two years. The object over the past two years has been to manufacture Republican ammunition for this campaign out of the record of the Roosevelt-Truman era. The object during the next two years, if the Democrats win, will be to manufacture Democratic ammunition for 1956 out of the record of the first two Eisenhower years...
...economy with the Ruhr, of a Rhone canal to open the Mediterranean to Germany, of joint arms plants, of joint German-French companies to develop France's North African territories. The Saar, Mendès indicated, could be just a small item in a new, sweeping Franco-German era of partnership...
...When the era of the automobile dawned in the mid-1920's Leavitt's club house atmosphere collapsed. By then Leavitt and Peirce had both died, within six months of each other in 1919, and two employees at the H.A.A., Frank Knapp and Fred Moore, bought the business. These two gentlemen saw the shop through its transitional period. They took down the great green curtain that closed off the rear of the shop and turned Leavitt's "house Man" into a counterman. The lunch counter was moved upstairs and the freshman smoker was closed. It was they who instituted...