Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are, in all, eight free and sovereign nations, 65 colonies, protectorates and trust territories (the smallest of them: Pitcairn Island, two square miles in the Pacific; the largest, Tanganyika, 362,688 square miles in East Africa). All are bound together into one geopolitical phenomenon called the Commonwealth...
Across the sea of white shirts and sun-brown faces floated the name of 45-year-old Ramon Magsaysay (pronounced wag-sigh-sigh), the fast-rising, Huk-fighting phenomenon who resigned as Secretary of Defense and quit President Elpidio Quirino's Liberal Party six weeks ago to join the Nacionalistas and wage war on Liberal corruption. Young businessmen, industrialists and army officers, and Filipino housewives-most of them political amateurs with the same kind of contagious enthusiasm as the amateurs for Ike and Stevenson-pitched in with U.S.-style posters and buttons and such slogans as "I sigh...
...phenomenon is called cataplexy (literally, being struck down). Manhattan Psychiatrist Max Levin has collected dozens of such cases over the years. Last week, in the Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, he offered an explanation of why the smiting father's arm is smitten down, and added an assortment of related cases, including the hunter who goes all of a jelly when he sights his gun at a rabbit...
...with her back to the camera feeding lines to a succession of potential Universal leading men. She shared an apartment with Charlotte Winters (now married to Actor Barton MacLane), and chummed with Nedda Harrigan (now married to Producer-Director Joshua Logan). She also had time to investigate a phenomenon that had been puzzling her for some time: why, she wanted to know, did men swarm around girls like her two friends and her sister Clara, and not around a girl like Rosalind Russell? "What do I do wrong?" she asked Charlotte Winters. After a thoughtful pause, Charlotte replied...
...deterioration of the popular press in England is a shocking phenomenon of modern journalism ... I think the phrase 'gutter press' could have been invented for the modern English tabloid The British . . . took the American tabloid and they lowered their sights. They de-improved it. It is something that has to be seen to be believed ... The curious thing is that, when an Englishman imitates an American tabloid, he is five times worse than anything an American would tolerate...