Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told, Nixon's performance was an extraordinary phenomenon in the new history of diplomacy and a striking vindication of the President who sent him. First, it was a performance of sheer physical endurance that only a fairly young and rugged man could have withstood: It was a grueling test of his person-to-person debating skill, of his way with crowds, of his knowledge and understanding of the Soviet Union and-fundamentally-of his knowledge and understanding of his own nation. To the thousands of Russians and Poles who saw him, Nixon was the personification of a kind...
Along with the welcoming crowds appeared another new phenomenon: aggressive industrial workers who elbowed their way up to Nixon to do some well-rehearsed heckling. Soviet Cultural Exchange Boss Georgy A. Zhukov all but admitted that the hecklers were government plants-a form of revenge for some of the rebuffs handed to Mikoyan and Kozlov during their U.S. visits. "Your workers," Zhukov blandly told Nixon, "expressed their point of view by throwing rotten eggs, but our workers express their opinion by asking questions. That...
...frightening dream, e.g., one involving a fall. Many peopie ask their physicians about these jerks, get some such explanation as, "It's your muscles relaxing suddenly as you unwind." This explanation sometimes helps, but it makes no scientific sense. The fact is, medical science knows little about the phenomenon...
...allies all felt as one. The French were disgusted. The Americans were inclined to break off. The British used failure of the talks (as once they had hoped to use success of them) to argue for zooming right up to the summit. It looked as if the sad diplomatic phenomenon at Geneva might last at least two weeks more...
Modern-day featherbedding got its grip on industry as labor's answer to oldtime management abuses such as the speedup, spread far and wide during World War II's crash production and cost-plus contracts. It is by no means an American phenomenon; featherbedding pervades many segments of labor in foreign countries, is often disguised behind the Iron Curtain to create the illusion of full employment...