Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fright at the moment?" solicitously asked Committee Counsel John Burling. Said Carroll: "That is right. I don't know if I can answer when I am frightened. I have the phenomenon of mike fright...
...color is not harmonious with the interiors of the dining halls, and the circular shape fights with the predominantly rectangular character of the halls and their furnishings (not to mention Leverett's trapeziform phenomenon...
Like gang wars, teen-age dope addiction still seems to be a big-city phenomenon. And police and lawmakers have begun to crack down. In the last few months, both New York and Chicago have put more & more policemen to tracking down peddlers. New York schoolteachers have been instructed to look for symptoms of addiction, such as yawning, nausea, watery eyes, among their students. Even more to the point: a bill currently before the Illinois legislature which could send dope peddlers to prison for life for selling narcotics to a minor...
...This & More? At 64, Charlie Wilson is a magnificent specimen of an authentic 20th Century phenomenon, the American production man. He sees nothing astounding at all in the fact that the country has, in the five years since the world's greatest and most exhausting war, both manufactured and absorbed, among other things, 28,412,392 automobiles and trucks, 75,706,000 radios, 17,265,000 washing machines, 20,816,000 refrigerators, 110,940,000 men's suits, about 5 billion undergarments...
...kind of phenomenon that Charlie Wilson had learned to take almost for granted. In seven years as president of the General Electric Co., he was ringmaster of one of the biggest industrial shows on earth: a colossal sprawl of 115 factories which annually produced 200,000 different items (from miniature .06-gram light globes to 100-ton generator shafts) worth more than $1 billion, a talented industrial giant which could reach out and run the Hanford atomic works for the Government as well. During World War II, as the strong man of the WPB, he broke aircraft production bottlenecks...