Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devout, rarely goes to a mosque. But at home, as in his Parliament hideout, he lives almost as austerely as the founder of his faith (he eats little, owns only two suits, likes to dress no better than his chauffeur). Nowhere but in a Moslem country would the phenomenon of Mossadeq be possible...
Just how much hotter than "millions of degrees" is the center of the atomic phenomenon? Billions? Trillions? Let's not get the national debt mixed up with the atomic bomb...
...want to leave the battlefield at a crucial moment. In London, before the Primrose League (a Conservative Party offshoot which sponsors social and welfare activities), Churchill last week turned his old phrasemaking genius on Attlee & Co. Most striking Churchillisms: "Mr. Attlee [leads] that cluster of lionhearted limpets, a new phenomenon in our natural history . . . who are united by their desire to hold on to office at all costs . . . Our affairs drift and bump and flop...
Springtime means more than robins, romance, and reading period. It marks the appearance of that most unusual phenomenon--the Boston Pops Orchestra. Season after season Arthur Fiedler and his men have been delighting highbrows, lowbrows, and no-brows with nightly renditions of the best in light classical and popular music...
...days which precede his arrest he learns to love life once more. His renaissance is that of a martyr, for it takes place in the most squalid of scenes, rubble-ridden Genoa. Here is a drama of courage, and a type of courage which is indeed a social phenomenon in post-war Europe...