Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many who did not feel so kindly towards Howell's intervention in the course of nature. Several amusement park owners in the East, notably Palisades Park in New Jersey, filed law suits against Howell on the grounds that he "was interfering with business." They based their claims on the phenomenon of 32 consecutive rain-filled week-ends in and around New York and New England...
Doctors at Sacred Heart Hospital in Hanford, Calif, could hardly believe their ears: a 24-year-old housewife, eight months pregnant, arrived one morning last week and announced that her unborn baby was crying. The doctors listened. Sure enough, faint wails were coming from the fetus. The phenomenon, which may result when air reaches a baby through prematurely ruptured membranes, is not unknown, but it has rarely occurred so early. Except that the wails made her a little "nervous," the patient was feeling fine, looking forward to a normal delivery in a few weeks...
...Well now, tell me," bluff Lord Melbourne asked this exotic phenomenon, "what do you want to be?" To which...
...prices once in July, cut them again by 3% to 5%. All wholesale prices had edged lower again, and retail food prices had dropped 1% in the last half of July. Even houses-especially the older, higher-priced ones-were beginning to move down. Deflation was not a local phenomenon; in far-off New Zealand, the price of wool broke 70% in a week...
...they came without actually succeeding makes up the chilling better half of Invitation to Moscow, a book of vivid wartime reminiscences by one of Poland's top lawyers and political men. Taut, spare, sharply observed and recorded, it is the most convincing account yet of that indigenous Soviet phenomenon, the phony confession. Beside it, even Arthur Koestler's brilliant Darkness at Noon bulges a bit at the suppositional seams...