Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...factor in keeping prices level is the excess capacity built by U.S. industry during the boom. This now permits the economy to recover and expand without pressure on production resources, thus preventing demand from overrunning supply-and forcing up prices-in the fashion of classical inflation. It also means that industry tends to produce more efficiently, thus cutting costs and helping to keep prices steady...
...Faculty sponsor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Study Disarmament I read with dismay this morning the account of the self-styled "amusingly engineered coup" which, in the fashion of Communist seizure of organizations, turned the Committee into its opposite. This kind of a perversion of democratic processes seems to me neither amusing nor tolerable, whether it be carried out by revolutionary or by reactionary intriguers...
...blue-jerseyed Mustangs worked out under the gentling fall sun of California's Central Valley. Out of the car stepped a trim figure in grey slacks and blue windbreaker. Under fluffy, center-parted white hair, his big, broad-browed head was thrust forward, turtle fashion. He looked old as he walked toward the cleat-chewed turf, but he shed his years like a mantle and straightened up smartly as the call rang out: "All right, kickers and punters," and the 39 players ended their scrimmage. Nine young men fell out and trotted over to the venerable newcomer. "Hi, coach...
...Ahead. The one common denominator that sociologists, psychiatrists, gerontologists and geriatricians see in all the actively productive oldsters of this or any other time in history is a keen continuing interest in some activity, which carries with it a revitalizing sense of participation in life. This may be, Sloan fashion, a continuation of earlier activity, but with a switch from administration to policy, or a new career in public service. It may be that a former avocation can be turned into a vocation. But "make-work" hobbies will not do. The oldster, like the human being of any age, must...
...Crimson football team has "been getting a lot done in good fashion" in this week's practice sessions, according to Coach John Yovicsin. "They have real enthusiasm and have caught on to instructions quickly," he added...