Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood's Jean Parker, as the comic's ever-loving wife who saves him from himself, is interesting principally as a topographical phenomenon, and one not soon to be forgotten...
...however temporary the phenomenon, it is nevertheless true that under the impetus of the war-born Bill of Rights higher education in America has for the first time become genuinely democratic. For one single, brief instant of our history, the chance at a Harvard or a Yale education has suddenly ceased to depend on the financial resources of one's father. Much has been made in the sports columns of the nation of the appearance for the first time on a Yale varsity eleven of a Negro player and of the number of men on both teams whose names...
Change of Heart. In the prisoners' barbed-wire stockade at Kalgan there was further evidence of a historic military phenomenon: the diminishment of morale among even the best soldiers when the road ahead is an ever steepening, rock-strewn patch, the enemy one's own people. For eight years, since he was 17, Wang Yu-ming had fought with the Communists' famed Eighth Route Army, had risen from the ranks to the post of deputy company commander and had survived four wounds in battles with the Japanese...
They warned against amateur examination of the solar phenomenon without proper protection for the eyes such as a pack of dark photographic negatives or smoked glasses about the capacity of a Mount Vernon bottle...
Those Long Stripes. At week's end things were gradually getting back to normal. U.S. Weather Bureau forecasters, who had refused to share the nation's astonishment, wearily explained the phenomenon in terms of isobars and occluded fronts and went back to peering at their charts and thermometers. Eastern beaches were deserted again. But thousands of amateur weather prophets, who accepted the whole business as a call to arms, were busily trying to discover what it portended...