Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citation: " 'The greatest phenomenon among the sculptors,' said the immortal Rodin. A patriot whose genius expressed with epic grandeur the indomitable spirit of his beloved Croatia...
...practice of lying down on the job in the first half of the month and then working like crazy (and at overtime) in the second half to make up the month's prescribed production quota. A new word was added to the Soviet work vocabulary to describe this phenomenon: shturmovshchina, i.e., storm attack. "Shturmovshchina," said Premier Bulganin, "leads to low-grade production...
...Majesty Queen Juliana regretted that she would be unable to attend the gala concert of the visiting Philadelphia Orchestra as planned. Late into the evening, Her Majesty would be compelled to spend her time sorting out that most un-Dutch of royal embarrassments: a Cabinet crisis. "A rather unusual phenomenon in the Netherlands," the Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant termed it. "But there are moments in life," the Het Parool of Amsterdam told its readers, "when one has to make a decision...
...claims he has seen more "flying saucers" than anyone alive insists that the spatial phenomenon does not exist...
...prove that Eisenhower can't be defeated in 1956. But it does prove that there is more flexibility in American democracy than our critics give us credit for. All political phenomena have a biographical pinnacle and a social and economic base. The biographical pinnacle of the Eisenhower phenomenon presents us with Eisenhower's personal appeal to the voters. But the political and social base of the phenomenon consists of the reluctant conversion of the U.S. business community to the revolution in domestic and foreign policy which it professed to abhor. The conversion may not be completely honest...