Word: hula
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles de Gaulle, who became immortalized by being named Time's Man of the Year, barely edging out Al Vellucci for the honor. But, with few exceptions, the plot was pretty dull, and most people sat back and waited for the short subjects. They came, in the form of hula hoops, mixed-mortality TV westerns, a talking satellite, and higher prices for vicuna coats...
...success of the Russian moon rocket should teach you Americans a lesson. Concentrate more on science and less on jazz, hula hoops and the almighty dollar...
...health of the U.S. economy and way of life as evidenced in 1958 by recovery from recession at home (confounding a basic Marxist proposition) and by the popularity overseas of U.S. staples that ranged from glass-walled skyscrapers and management consultants and supermarkets and consumer-credit washing machines and hula hoops and Benny Goodman at the Brussels Fair to the individual dedication of thousands of Americans serving on the cold-war front lines...
...Government it was a year of holding operations. The economy recovered its health; the vexed question of racial integration lay unsolved beneath the surface, but did not erupt into violence. A nation's youth went hula-hooping its uncomplicated way, and science, medicine and industry explored new breakthroughs. But the stones cast at Richard Nixon in Latin America and the Democratic sweep in the congressional elections made manifest a widespread discontent with U.S. policy, foreign and domestic...
Some other 1958 symbols of plenty: $1.6 billion for jewelry, $280 million for furs, $20.1 billion on travel and $2.1 billion for that growing U.S. hobby, boating. If his fancy was tickled, the U.S. consumer could even be tempted into buying 30 million hula hoops...