Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School blacks (Crimson, Oct. 5, 1976) with no mention of the student activism which initiated and supported increased admissions. Moreover, having gone on record innumerable times criticizing the University's failure to improve the status of women and minorities, he has yet to do anything to turn the trend. Most likely Leondard's office will remain ineffectual because of a lack of support from the Council of Deans...
MOST ATTRACTIVE EXAMPLE OF A TRENDY TREND: The Moneychangers (NBC). It dealt with a subject-commercial banking-that is not exactly fraught with romance. Craftsman-like writing, direction and acting (notably by Christopher Plummer as a thoroughgoing heel, and by Susan Flannery, playing that television rarity, a genuinely mature woman) have turned it into the most amusingly melodramatic of the currently fashionable miniseries...
...rebelling against '60s rhetoric and radicalism. Although Rocco and Antonia belong to a student collective, Antonia confesses that she is "sick of all this revolutionary talk that doesn't mean anything." Tired of total sexual freedom, the lovers settle down together for a while, thus typifying a trend that Italian sociologists have labeled "a return to the steady couple...
Officials of the U.S. Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control (CDC) were first alerted when a number of states reported a disturbing trend: GuÍllaÍn-Barré syndrome seemed to be occurring with greater frequency among people who had been inoculated than among those who had not. A quick survey confirmed their fears: only one out of every five Americans (nearly 40 million) had received their swine-flu shots. Yet, of the 107 suspected paralysis cases in 18 states, more than half-at least 58 people, including six who later died-had been inoculated...
Time was when a man feeling loaded, fond and possibly guilty at Christmas time would hie himself to Tiffany or Cartier and buy his loved one a little something to make her feel like Cleopatra-an epithalamium of emeralds, say, or a modest suburban tiara. The trend in recent years, however, seems to have been away from the unilateral bauble and toward the his and her extravaganza, particularly of the shared, sensory and sensational sort...