Word: graduall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supplied with enough gasoline to meet all their requirements, either for their own or rented cars." Enough fuel has been supplied to hotels so that hot water and heat are ample; transportation schedules are normal. But tourists will find one difference: in most countries there has been a gradual rise in prices...
...Arcularis lies on the operating table in a surgical amphitheater, surrounded by doctors and nurses and watched by unseen medical students. Then Mr. Arcularis drifts into his ether dream, a strange, cold, ocean voyage which makes up the heart of the play. Finally in the growing chill and the gradual slowing of the ships engines the scene returns to the operating room and the death of Mr. Arcularis...
...attacked televised variety shows with their "semi-naked ladies" and singers "bleating, yelling moronishly monotonous" songs, and then rose from his chair to give his interpretation of ballet on television. Sorokin also noted the gradual degenaration of literature to the point where it now shows "moral disintegration...
...Cutting tariffs between the six nations by 30% in the next four years, and gradual elimination, over a maximum period of 15 years, of all tariffs and import quotas between them...
...noble art of penmanship, one of the highest artistic expressions of civilized humanity, has been suffering a gradual decline over the last few thousand years. First came the adoption of a standardized alphabet by the pedantic ancients. Then there was the invention of the printing press, by the notorious Gutenberg. Finally, only ninety years ago, those three men in Milwaukee devised the infamous typewriter...