Word: fads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...peanut butter? A peanut that never forgets or an elephant that sticks to the roof of your mouth) and the more recent grape jokes. (What's purple and hums? An electric grape. Why does it hum? It doesn't know the words). Another collegiate fad was the Tom Swifties, inspired by Author Edward Stratemeyer's series. "I've been looking forward to this ride," said Lady Godiva shiftlessly...
...made by rabbits and horned lizards seeking shade; by night, the only noise was the sound of coyotes howling. Now the dunes reverberate with the sound of engines rev ving and backfiring. These are the echoes of the desert dragster, practitioner of the West's newest, and hottest, fad - desert drag and dune racing...
...goods, which are tailored to Latin American tastes. Clothing styles owe more to Europe than the U.S. The tool and paint departments, which are mainstays in the U.S., scarcely exist in Latin America, where cheap labor and a middle-class aversion to manual work prevent any do-it-yourself fad...