Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME'S 20-odd correspondents who have been scouting their own and neighboring states for political news and trends, the campaign has been an exciting-if exhausting-tour of duty. Nowhere has this been so true as on that uniquely American phenomenon, the campaign train. Jolting in & out of whistle stops, gauging the temper of back-platform crowds, watching the suspense build up from hot August through cool October, and, in general, "trying to do a sitting-still job while moving," calls on all a reporter's resourcefulness, as well as his energies...
...Democrats are dedicated to the cause of preserving and extending our traditional American freedoms. I am confident that the present infatuation of some Republican leaders with smear and slander is a passing phenomenon; but a lot of damage can be done in a little time. We want an America where the freedom of Harvard will be a model--not an exception, and certainly not a casualty. Adlai E. Stevenson Springfield, Illinois
...campaign buttons of 1952 were bigger and flashier than ever before, almost nobody was wearing them but youngsters. There were Stevenson supporters among teen-agers-as one result last week the Eisenhower train rolled grandly from Sacramento to Oakland, Calif, plastered with Adlai stickers. But the noisiest single phenomenon of the campaign was the vociferous Ike worship which has gripped grade-school kids...
Along with its bull, Japan has acquired another U.S. phenomenon, the investment trust, in which investors may buy part ownership in scores of companies. Japan now has seven such booming trusts, which charge only 2½% in commission, and pay 7% interest. So far, they have sold $70 million worth of securities to workers, housewives, farmers, even labor unionists. (One of the biggest trusts, operated by Nikko Securities Co., reports good sales among prostitutes, who have large savings after seven years of occupation...
...phenomenon of the bestseller lists these days is the plentiful variety of good seagoing fare. Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny rolled in first, more than a year ago;* since then there has been a flood tide of such salty works as Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us and Under the Sea Wind, Nicholas Monsarrat's novel of convoys battling The Cruel Sea, and Commander Edward L. Beach's Submarine! The latest sample of the true brine is Jan de Hartog's The Distant Shore, a Literary Guild selection for September...