Word: fad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carroll) fostered the fad of the portmanteau word (samples: chortle, combining chuckle and snort; galumph, to gallop triumphantly). But by & large, students have always been the real wordmakers. Sometimes, indeed, their words have become English. Among them: blazer, sophomore and constitutional-originally a bookworm's form of exercise...
...filled the smoke-blurred spotlight for well over a "decade. She has filled it almost as long upstairs in the air-conditioned, palm-frond land of popular dance music. In 1938 she became a national hit when her record of her own song A-Tisket A-Tasket began the fad for swinging nursery rhymes. In 1946 she recorded a cold-blooded Calypso song, Stone Cold Dead in the Market, which became another national bestseller. Says her No. 1 fan, Bing Crosby: "Man, woman or child, Ella is the greatest singer of them...
...sure indication that Munro is serious in his optimism is the fact that the sticks, or crosses, have been lengthened this year. Short sticks, which the coach considers to be a "New England fad," are easier to control, but Munro believes that the team "has shown enough improvement to warrant the longer crosses...
Although many people think of skiing and skating as the only interesting winter sports, the recent fad of snow-shoeing has gathered a great many enthusiastic during the past winter...
Many of us ask "why?" This fad is part of a trend. In fact, the chief thing I've noticed about women since I became old enough to take notice of them is that they are getting to look more and more like men. First it was slacks, then the square shoulder, then the man's shirt with dungarees and socks, and now the crew cut. This makes one wonder whether it was worth while acquiring an appreciation of the opposite sex after...