Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...areas it controls almost to the levels demanded by the old landlords. This was necessary to support the increasing number of Vietcong regular troops. The peasants in affected areas have retaliated by defecting and by giving the Southern army intelligence about Vietcong caches. Reforms would hasten this trend, but as usual they have second place to the military effort...
...figure represents an eight per cent increase over last June's $916.5 million total. According to the rise is due to a general upward trend in the stock market. He emphasized that no special gift had contributed to the new high, noting that the $1 billion level had been expected for some time...
...with belfry, potbellied stove and initial-scarred benches, set city-bred youngsters to speculating about how "cute" the one-teacher, one-room school must have been. Yet for a surprising number of children, this kind of school is neither quaint nor historical: they attend one daily. Despite the big trend toward consolidation, some 10,000 one-room schools still function in rural America...
...Healthy Trend. Sanford considers the stress on love a healthy trend, not basically different from "the ancient Christian idea." In modern terms, he suggests, the emerging ethic could well rest upon whether sexual activity develops or inhibits the individual personality-and that judgment must always take into consideration the generally accepted social attitudes toward sex. College girls, concludes Sanford, are increasingly conscious of this "and do not have as much difficulty in restraining themselves as is generally believed...
...into a luscious 36-24-36 configuration that has male viewers sitting upright in their reclining chairs. Yet hardly a real-life wife objects. Instead, they take notes. And when she began delighting TV Hubby Dick Van Dyke by wearing Capri slacks, it helped make Capri slacks the biggest trend in U.S. casual attire...