Word: trended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less publicized examples indicate a similar trend in Germany, however. Back in July, an Allied Military Government public opinion poll, which the Social Relations people point out may have under-estimated the situation, revealed that "sympathy for National Socialism" had jumped more than 20 per cent in two years. An independent survey, run off at the same time, spotted former Nazis in more than one-half of all Bavarian State Government positions...
...Trend. "Modern Parables," as Oursler, a convert to Roman Catholicism, calls his tales out of Sunday School, were selling fast; the Cowles-owned Register & Tribune syndicate had already signed up 75 newspapers. Two other syndicates will soon distribute similar "inspirational" columns by two other bestselling religious authors. For a weekly sermon on such subjects as "The Philosophy of Pleasure" by Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen (Peace of Soul), the George Matthew Adams syndicate has lined up 25 newspapers. For the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (A Guide to Confident Living), the Post-Hall syndicate has signed 34 newspapers...
Newspaper editors had spotted a trend. A little belatedly, they had found that the book trade's success with religious titles was no fluke, but the result of insecurity and searching for faith in a war-torn world...
...capitalize on the "religious trend," the syndicates serialized the Peale and Sheen books, found readers still calling for more. Some papers, e.g., the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, were planning to run one of the new columns in a top spot on Page One. Said Executive Editor Basil L. ("Stuffy") Walters of the Chicago Daily News last week: "People would have laughed you out of town if you had run that kind of stuff...
What Dulles said was: Unless the trend to "statism" is checked, "Our children and grandchildren [will have to fight] their way back, a bloody way against the all-powerful state ... I don't believe that we need to have a violent revolution, certainly not today. The people still have it in their power peacefully to check [statism...