Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This Made Me Scared." The boys were unprepared for another Midwestern phenomenon: winter. At the first cold snap, McPherson College telephoned around town to line up some warm clothes...
Everybody who has ever had a hangover thinks he knows all about this fashionable phenomenon; in this he is probably wrong. But on one point he is usually unyielding: he knows the world's best cure. All this misinformation was sadly scattered until two bright and breezy British types decided to "do for the hangover what Dr. Kinsey did for sex." Now they have done it, in a slim volume just published in London entitled Wake Up and Die. It will cure no hangover, but may enliven convalescence...
Scientists & Shoe Factories. In many ways balding, bullet-scarred, 56-year-old Lemuel Shepherd is a stereotype of that curious (to civilian eyes) phenomenon, the modern American general. Like scores of his kind, Shepherd, in war or peace, must be part military man, part lobbyist, and part public-relations man-never too busy to make a speech, receive a Congressman or hold a press conference. He draws his strength from appropriations. His divisions are irrevocably involved not only with scientists and arsenals, but with shoe factories and the New York garment district...
...Life is not a miracle," says Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Harold C. Urey. "It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the earth...
Murder in the Suburbs. The enormous development of row upon row of new suburban homes was a postwar phenomenon familiar to any cross-country airplane passenger. Prewar suburbs were normally Republican. But the transplanting of hundreds of thousands of prospering city dwellers-many of them Democrats-raised the question of which way the suburbs would go. The Volunteers for Eisenhower were the first to spot the possibilities of the suburban areas, turned in big Republican leads from New York's bedroom counties all across the U.S. Even in deep-Democratic Georgia, Atlanta's three suburban "fingerbowl" districts gave...