Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since this would take the sheen off the theory that the infection of the Buddhist troubles in Saigon is demoralizing the government troops, and weakens the argument that defeat is inevitable so long as Diem is in power. When there is a defeat, the color is rich and flowing; trend stories are quickly cranked up. Last week, after one battle, A.P. gave credit to government troops for "the most significant victory over the Reds in months" then went on to say: "But the success was tempered by renewed civilian opposition to the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem," proceeding...
...Although Florida offered 20% more pay for teaching three trimesters instead of two semesters, many teachers would rather have had the extra vacation or moonlighting time. Since trimesters are shorter by two weeks than the old 1 6-week semesters, professors have had to tighten up their courses. The trend in examinations is away from penetrating essay questions to machine-graded objective tests...
...plan to lower its newsstand price from 200 to 100 in almost all of the U.S., while raising the price to 250 in certain selected areas. But so far, the economy campaign has met with slim success. In the first six months of this year, Curtis reversed the trend, but still lost...
Undoubtedly beginning a trend, Meredith Willson's Here's Love (Oct. 3) -a musical adaptation of the 1947 20th Century-Fox department story called Miracle on 34th Street - has a cast that is about 10% Negro. They are Macy's shoppers, spectators, secretaries - everything but Santa Claus - and do not play the roles of Negroes as such...
...European working hours, vacations and holidays released by the Stockholms Enskilda Bank of Sweden and the International Labor Organization. The Germans now work 15% fewer hours than they used to, and have signed agreements to reduce their present 44.7-hour week to 40 hours by 1966. In fact, the trend throughout Europe is clearly toward shorter hours for the workers...