Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Tuss McLaughry explained his half of this phenomenon after the game. "We had expected to go around the ends, but we couldn't, so we tried the other way." He was as high on Houston as Red Blaik and Lou Little have been previously; he admitted almost apologetically that his team made its yardage "by trapping the middle of the line...
...meat ax . . . on every forward-looking program . . ." There were more crowds at Schenectady, Amsterdam, Little Falls, Utica, Rome, Oneida, Syracuse, Seneca Falls, Geneva, Rochester, and Buffalo. And there would be great crowds again this week as the President toured the Middle West. Politicos and columnists seemed puzzled by the phenomenon. But the President himself, with a peculiar combination of frankness and naiveté, offered a plausible explanation. Said he in a speech at Batavia, N.Y.: "I think they want to find out whether all this propaganda that has been put out-about the President not being able...
...streamlined look of the new models had not been accomplished without certain annoying disadvantages. Some roofs were so low that a medium-sized man had to take off his hat to sit down-a phenomenon which caused Manhattan Designer Raymond Loewy to dash off a critical cartoon for the benefit of the Society of Automotive Engineers...
...phenomenon of Harry Truman's reception might be explained by the U.S. citizen's sympathy for the underdog, by his admiration for spunkiness, or by just plain curiosity. The other phenomenon could be explained by the agreeable mood of the country. The country was fat and happy...
...whole noisy show was as much a part of U.S. politics as the convention hall. Was there any point to it? In the age of radio, television and public-opinion polls, was the American political campaign an outmoded phenomenon...