Word: trended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would-be killers, dressed in old Kamikaze uniforms, slashed at Kikunani with fish knives, surrendered after failing to kill him. Later, a "New Masses" spokesman defined the party aim: "To fight the trend of labor, which is a menace to the nation's recovery." He also revealed that the party had eight more Kamikaze-clad vigilantes in its "Special Attack Corps...
...major commodities, only heavy metals went up. Even there the trend was mixed. By week's end, the Dow-Jones Commodity futures index was down 2.02 points to 117.56, about the same level as in November just before commodity futures joined the general price rise as OPA controls went off. It would take time for the lowered commodity prices to affect most retail prices. But many a retailer was hastening to clear his shelves of high-priced goods...
Ascendant popularity of nationally syndicated comic strips was seen yesterday as "a pornographic trend," and "dry rot for American youth," by Franklin G. Balch '49, spokesman for the College Montaigue Society...
...last week thought it would be the other way around. The anti-CCF Citizen noted the swing to socialism in Great Britain and elsewhere in the world, and candidly said: "Canada has already witnessed the birth and steady growth of its own social democratic party, the CCF." As the trend continues, the Citizen said, one or the other of the older parties will either disappear or will coalesce. Then the CCF "will assume ... its position as the 'other' major political party in Canada...
...trend toward new materials and new construction methods was best shown in small boats. On hand were: unsinkable aluminum "Air Skiff" dinghies made by Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. (price: $250 & up); Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp.'s new aluminum dinghy, along with its older aluminum canoe; magnesium rowboats of the Dow Chemical...