Word: fad
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...Immelmann earned two, as did Corporal Adolf Hitler, and now U.S. teen-agers are buying them by the gross. Dug out of attics and curio shops and freshly minted by the thousands, the German Iron Cross has become the newest surfer's emblem and high school fad...
...must be frankly admitted by Catholics that the "new theology" that preaches an atheistic secularism cannot be casually dismissed as a fad. It is too prominent, too widespread, and seeks to rock the essentials of a Christian faith that must articulate a position in the face of such a challenge. Our way of talking theism may very well be outdated...
...mistakenly support the current fad for blaming Detroit for our personal shortcomings. If cars were death-proof [April 1], if alcohol did not make you drunk, if the police were not brutal, if the Government would take care of me-ah, what a Camelot...
Operation Match had reason to celebrate. Their business has grown into a nationally publicized computer-date fad in just a year. Match has received 30,000 completed forms in the last two weeks and hopes for 200,000 before the school year ends...
...sheer and pervasive fervor, the love of nationhood has no equal among contemporary political passions. Independence is the fetish, fad and totem of the times. Everybody who can muster a quorum in a colony wants Freedom Now-and such is the temper of the age that they can usually have it. Roughly one-third of the world, some 1 billion people, have run up their own flags in the great dismantlement of empires since World War II, creating 60 new nations over the face of the earth. In the process they have also created, for themselves and for the world...