Word: pandemoniums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American people have fallen [Nov. 23]. Cigarettes, long recognized as a possible cause of cancer, are still indiscriminately sold to people who can't think for themselves. But the minute that a possible cancer-causing chemical was thought to be on some cranberries, the whole nation went into pandemonium...
...year business, graced Thanksgiving tables in sauces and jellies, and even-when its juice is mixed with gin-in a concoction called swampfire. But mixed with Arthur S. (for Sherwood) Flemming, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, the cranberry last week turned out to be something more powerful: pandemonium...
...shows, not quite so prosperous, are moving to Manhattan with equal enthusiasm. Among the more promising: ¶ Fiorello!, with newcomer Tom Bosley an accurate re-creation of New York's "Little Flower" La Guardia, is filled with warmth, schmalz and a lively choreography that amounts to expertly organized pandemonium. Directed by George Abbott, boasting a bouncy score (by Jerry Bock) and urbane lyrics (by Sheldon Harnick), Fiorello! moves from Manhattan's garment district to Washington's Capitol Hill to New York's City Hall at a breathless pace. Crowed the Philadelphia Inquirer: "The new champion...
...Pandemonium broke loose on the Cornell side of the field, for with this victory the Big Red vaulted into the thick of the Ivy League race. Princeton's loss and Dartmouth's tie on Saturday leave Penn and Cornell as the top contenders for first place...
...whole scene of week-before pandemonium would have pleased Nikita Khrushchev as much as a red carpet. He had made it clear to the State Department that he really did not want to see any more of the U.S. landscape than he could avoid (he ducked a visit to TVA and Ike's old home at Abilene, Kans.). Quite obviously, he wanted a lot of places to talk and a lot of people to listen to him. From all the week-before signs, that is just what most of the curious and relaxed U.S. wanted...