Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trend seems even more advanced in the Colonies. The bag wig, with its black-silk sack to encase long braids, and the shorter bob wig, with neat rows of curls about the sides of the head, remain popular. But the wigless look, once associated with fashion iconoclasts like Benjamin Franklin, has already been adopted by no less a pacesetter than General Washington...
...most fashionable watering spot in the southern colonies. The frivolity of these resorts sometimes comes in for criticism. Said the South Carolina Gazette: "Although there is a great want of money to procure the necessities of life, yet large sums are weekly laid out for amusements." Nonetheless, the new trend toward medicinal use of mineral waters has become as popular in America as at Bath in Britain or Spa near Liège, and the social quadrille is considered part of the treatment. Among the most celebrated spots...
...long as the war continues to aggravate an already acute labor shortage, women will undoubtedly work in an increasingly broad range of occupations, but there are signs that this trend may eventually be reversed. The growing demand for closer regulation of the medical profession, particularly the new emphasis upon credentials from training schools, attended only by men, has already begun to reduce the practice of female doctors and midwives. In England, where guild pressure to regulate the crafts has been strong for over a century, almost no skilled trades remain open to women...
...below the surface things have been changing with increasing rapidity, as the overall trend to the left and the growing rift between left and right in these elections demonstrates. The DC-headed coalitions of the "centro-sinistra" (center-left)--including the Christian Democrats and one or more of the smaller parties (Socialist, Social Democratic, or Republican)--have shown themselves increasingly unable to cope with Italy's economic problems over the past few years. The rapid post-war industrialization of the country and the accompanying rise in the standard of living seem, in retrospect, to have peaked in 1969. Since then...
Crimes against property have dropped 44 per cent below University police projections for the year ending July 1, bucking a long term trend of increasing thefts...