Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole trend set some of the stuffier law firms and various executive rows into re-examining traditional codes of dress. For the first time, reporters covering Congress were allowed to enter the press galleries without suit coats and ties. But a valiant attempt to extend that right to members of the House was squelched by a surprisingly decorous House Speaker Tip O'Neill. When Jim Mattox, a Texas Democrat, showed up in a light blue shirt and no tie, O'Neill asked him to leave...
Later on, in about the fifth inning, with the Cubs ahead, 3-1, the veteran oddsmaker denied the trend of the game, proudly announcing to all around that if the Cubs won, he would "strip on Michigan Avenue," the main street in downtown Chicago...
Harvard officials said yesterday the money, allocated by Congress two years ago, represents a trend away from helping small, struggling libraries and towards strengthening major libraries. These libraries, in turn, are expected to lend their books to the smaller libraries...
...subject of scorn and ridicule than it was of serious analysis, and I think it's inevitable that it's going to get worse in '80 than it was in '79, and it will get worse in '81 than in '80. The only trend is downward. But it's been almost impossible to get people to face up to this...
...answer was 'Yes, I like people!' We see this attitude reflected in such books as Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes. It was the era of the common man! Predictably William's 'sense of humanity' was an approved value of that particular cultural trend. However, alternative views are possible ... I question whether an indiscriminate liking for people is a virtue ... Yet that may be one reason why Williams went into general practice, and I became a pathologist. He was willing to accept the world and people in it as they were; I reserve...