Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friendship, as though it were law or medicine," and who goes about the world infecting whole continents with the botch of good will. On one level the book is a passionate editorial against U.S. innocence abroad. On another it is, perhaps unconsciously, a revealing study of a new phenomenon of history: a British inferiority complex-the mixture of fury and self-pity with which the old cock of the walk surveys the new. On still another level the book is a nervous and indirect reconnaissance of the borders of that undiscovered country of love to which Greene is always journeying...
Conant said that the questions, "How did it happen? Why did it happen? and Will it happen again?" must be answered about the rise and reign of Hitler. After nothing the importance of the school-master in German life, Conant asked, "How did this phenomenon (Hitler) arise in such a highly educated nation...
...through the monkeyshines, it is a comedy of errors usually compounded in production. To handle this thorny flower at all on sponsored TV takes courage beyond the call of drama; to evoke as much fragrance as NBC's Hall of Fame succeeded in doing last week is a phenomenon rare even in the theater...
...Niort, a sleepy town in west central France, Dr. Alain de Lignières took a hard look at the phenomenon. The disease began with agonizing headaches and repeated vomiting. It continued with failing vision, bellyache, urinary difficulties, ended with excruciating pain, fits of delirium, blindness, hallucinations, usually death. De Lignières noted that three of his patients had died in this fashion after taking Stalinon, immediately phoned his suspicions to health authorities in Paris. Emergency orders went out to 14,000 pharmacies to stop sale of the drug...
...long-lived satellite will have to be raised from 140 miles to 180 miles because of the decelerating drag of air particles at the lower altitude. Anticipated perigee for Vanguard: a safe 200 miles. Scientists at Washington's Carnegie Institution are still puzzling over a radio phenomenon of Sputnik I: a "ghost" signal that registered on their receivers when the artificial satellite was on the opposite side of the earth. One guess: under certain ionospheric conditions, the radio waves of Sputnik traveled back on great circle paths that somehow converged on the opposite side of the world. Suggests Carnegie...