Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this atmosphere of mutual hostility, the commission contended, the relatively new phenomenon of state-supported terrorism poses "an alarming" danger to the Marines. "For a growing number of states," the report concluded, "terrorism has become an alternative means of conducting state business, and the terrorists themselves are agents whose association the state can easily deny...
January 15--With finals just about to begin, students are intrigued and faintly worried by a peculiar meteorological phenomenon--blue snow. Ranging in shade from deep purple to pale cobalt over the course of six hours, the color seems to be strictly local; it is darkest and heaviest between Mass. Ave. and the river, and peters out as nearby as Allston and Somerville. Nevertheless, fears of some strange chemical reaction brought on by research--perhaps nuclear research in Harvard laboratories--begins to mount...
February 24--Green snow falls. Meselson promises that if he can't find a way to half the phenomenon, he will direct his efforts toward coordinating it better with the appropriate occasions. "If this were St. Patrick's Day, no one would be worried--you'd think it was cute," he says...
...times, too, Reagan has talked of the Soviet Union as a phenomenon that a resolute West could cause to disappear. In a 1982 speech to the British Parliament, he borrowed a phrase that the Bolsheviks had used against their opponents and predicted that Soviet Marxism would wind up on "the ash heap of history." Speaking at a Notre Dame commencement in 1981, and again to evangelicals last March, he called Marxism-Leninism a "bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written...
...power, but of video energy. No one can resist its gravitational pull, and there seems to be less and less reason even to try. It might help to know the numbers-63% of MTV's audience, for example, is under 25-but statistics often tell less about a phenomenon than simple observation. Check out one of the year's biggest hit movies: Flashdance has the shameless energy of a prototypical rock video. Look at how the kids are dressing: off the shoulder, like Jennifer Beals in Flashdance, on the razzle, like Michael Jackson in Beat It, or like...