Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Waldorf-Astoria. Gathered for the annual clinical congress of the American College of Surgeons, they packed room after room to hear technical papers read and discussed. They watched dozens of colored movies (Cine Clinics, they called them) of operations ranging from standard procedures through the specialties to the spectacular. They trooped off by bus and motorcade to 61 hospitals in New York City's five boroughs to watch "wet clinics," as they call the real thing...
While Miracle of Fatima is a special attempt to capitalize on Roman Catholic movie-goers, it also represents this current trend in religious pictures: It tries to "sell" a religious theme by sensationalizing it (as "Spectacular," "Staggering," "Breathtaking"), and disguises some tired melodrama with a fresh set of symbols...
Alvin Johnson never held himself out as a philosopher, but he did become a scholar-with a spectacular sort of wanderlust that eventually made him famous. A kindly, ruddy-faced man who wandered from medicine to the classics to economics, he taught at eight universities, founded a school, finally became one of U.S. education's elder statesmen. By last week, as he published his autobiography at 77 (Pioneer's Progress; Viking Press, $5), he could justly make the claim: "I possessed an educational green thumb. Intellectual plants grew under my hand...
...problems of moonshining is labor supply: likely men are inclined to shy at the risk of being caught. But profits are still big enough so that Old Popskull is enjoying its most spectacular boom since the days of the Volstead...
When the "A" offensive team returned to action near the close of the scrimmage, Clasby began giving the on-lookers what they were hoping for. He broke loose for two runs of about 40 yards each, the second one a spectacular dash down the sidelines. The crowed, seemingly satisfied, offered up a spontaneous round of applause and began heading for the exits...