Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brutal Fist. Gradually, but ever more noticeably, the image of the dictator who ruled the Soviet Union for nearly 40 years is enjoying a public refurbishing. Russia's public celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany accentuated the trend. Stalin's name has appeared frequently and admiringly in a torrent of war memoirs and newspaper articles. The first bust of him to be seen in Moscow since 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev launched the destalinization spring day. Within a few short years, a cold war would descend on the Continent, turning it into a zone...
...hold new elections before next April, is pondering whether to seize upon the sudden shift in his party's fortunes by calling elections for June or July or to wait a few more months. The advantage of a later date, possibly in October, is that the pro-Labor trend is likely to be more pronounced by then, thus making Wilson virtually certain of becoming the first British Prime Minister in this century to lead his party to three successive election victories...
...everybody-including Igor Stravinsky, who wrote the Ebony Concerto for Woody in 1946. The second Herd (1947-50) tried to hitch up with bebop, but muffled its big beat in the process and dropped $175,000. In the '50s and early '60s, Herman leaned toward one pop trend and then another, but basically stuck to a swinging style that never buried the beat...
...lower the barriers will be set back if Congress passes protectionist quotas on textiles. The Japanese are privately resigned to passage of the Mills bill, which could well prove costlier to the U.S. than to them. It would not only place the responsibility on Washington for reversing a worldwide trend toward freer trade, but would also add to inflation in the U.S. The danger always exists that Congress, in an election year, will turn Mills' proposal into a Christmas-tree bill, loading it down with amendments setting quotas on other goods. Manufacturers of electronic and chemical products, flat glass...
...Palestinians do not agree, and are increasingly developing their own identity and their own institutions more or less independent of the Arab states. (The commando organizations are only part of this trend. and also one of the driving forces behind...