Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here the rub comes in. All food (except milk, which the French never had, and citrus fruits which are out of season) can be had, but for a price. The black market is king. But the strange thing about the black market is that it is not only a phenomenon of shortage but has also become an ingrained, accepted, and sometimes welcome way of doing things. Rationing, with the resulting fair distribution and low prices, cannot work in France. The average Frenchman remains too individualistic and self-centered to appreciate that way of doing things...
...surprised when plays on religious themes hit their top in popularity in Great Britain during the war. Crowds saw them in shelters, tents, churches. But almost everybody was surprised at the phenomenon that followed: in the year after the war, the morality and miracle play and the historical religious drama had grown, not waned, in popularity. Today they play all over England...
...Cathedral next door. La Paz is bewildered and aghast at the violence of the last weekend. There has been an immense religious revival. At last Friday's Mass for the dead of both sides, the Plaza was absolutely packed. Even the men knelt to the Host, a rare phenomenon in Spanish America...
...difficult to deny that there is a sluggishness about British actions, public and private, that does not exist elsewhere. . . . There is no active discontent, but also no sparkle or enthusiasm for anything but the various ways of consuming leisure. . . . The causes of [the phenomenon] deserve some inquiry...
Just when the sulfa drugs, penicillin and the other antibiotics seemed to be sweeping most of the bacterial diseases before them, a dark thunderhead of rumor appeared on the horizon-the germs were rallying and fighting back. All over the U.S., bacteriologists studied the phenomenon, and by last week the rumors were well confirmed. Within a few years, ventured Dr. Hans Molitor, penicillin and streptomycin may lose much of their power to cure some of the most prevalent diseases. No alarmist, Dr. Molitor should know what he is talking about: as director of the Merck Institute, he was a pioneer...