Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FISCAL POLICY: "They promise lower federal taxes for every citizen, greater federal spending on virtually every front, and a beautifully balanced federal budget. I have called this phenomenon what it is: the biggest and most flamboyant three-for-one sale in recent American politics...
...this month, 20,000 first-day shoppers from a 30-mile radius jammed highway 22 for four solid miles. Main reason for the stampede: the store opened on a Sunday, thus permitting entire families to do their shopping together. Such booming Sabbath business has become a nationwide phenomenon-and one of the hottest controversies in U.S. retailing...
...even greater noise was made in London last week, about a lesser artistic event: the unlikely phenomenon known as Liberace...
...this Cambridge autumnal phenomenon--the lush full beard--has been suffering lately from the kind of neglect that springs from sowing a field too heavily with wheat. But we broached this subject once to a Student Council member, whose avocation is Marine Biology. He thought we were talking about freshwater shrimp, lectured us for some minutes in off-the-record fashion about the cusine at During Park, and concluded with a prepared statement about Council endorsement of private enterprise...
Journal, "that in the universal push to abolish illiteracy, we may create the phenomenon of literates illiterate in every higher sense...