Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before Hurricane Edna swooped past New York, another, better-known phenomenon whooshed into Manhattan: Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe landed from an airliner and, said the tabloids, the damage, compared to Edna's, was inestimable. Obviously relishing every wolf call and whistle, Marilyn spent her time between a few days of picture-shooting (The Seven Year Itch) at a few nightclubs and Broadway shows, and with a few hundred avid autograph-hunting youngsters...
...Ohrbach's (actually the 47-year-old James McCreery department store, remodeled) sported carpets of grey and buff, walls of pastel pinks and blues, modern display cases, more try-on rooms. But nothing was changed in the business methods that have made Ohrbach's a phenomenon of U.S. merchandising...
...fact that the hydrogen bomb has turned out to be an even more hideous and destructive weapon than was planned and expected. It has now been discovered that in certain special cases the heat and blast may be no more than the percussion cap of a much larger phenomenon...
...This phenomenon is the radioactive "fallout" that showered the Japanese fishing boat Fortunate Dragon and several of the inhabited Marshall Islands with noxious ashes. That this kind of noxious fallout must probably be expected, obviously transforms the new H-bomb from a city-destroying weapon to a province-crippling weapon. Churchill used this new phenomenon to justify the abandonment of Britain's great Suez base. Churchill was saying, in effect, that the Suez base, which stretches for 100 miles along the Canal, was now too vulnerable to have real value...
...thrilling degree-the helpless beauty of a dark little nymph who seems to wake the satyr in men. But the secret of Gina's success is not beauty, not brains, not even luck. Hers is the first appearance in sunny Italy of a stormy Hollywood phenomenon: the Star Type...