Word: trended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election was significant evidence of a new trend in Manhattan politics. In former years, a light vote always meant that Tammany's Democratic machine had things its own way. Now it was the leftwing political actionists, not the party regulars, who turned out to vote regardless of issues or weather. Steel's 13,421 votes compared favorably with the A.L.P.'s best previous total in the 19th District; Klein's 17,360 showed that only one of three registered Democrats had bothered to show...
...Japanese Government, with the approval of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, increased its efforts to check the mounting inflationary trend. To supplement a stiff war-profits tax ordered by SCAP (Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Pacific) last fall, the Government has prescribed a set of anti-inflationary measures which one U.S. correspondent dubbed SCAPitalism: 1) restriction of cash incomes to a monthly maximum of 500 yen (about $33 at the present arbitrary rate of exchange); 2) freezing of bank accounts (individuals may not withdraw more than 300 yen a month); 3) collection and distribution of essential...
...Flagellations. A typical problem was the choice of priests and bishops for the large bodies of Catholic immigrants: foreign-language groups, especially the Germans, demanded a clergy of their own origin and language. A large part of the hierarchy, led by the Irish, considered this a dangerous trend. They knew that Catholicism in the U.S. labored under a widespread suspicion of being an alien creed, that the Church could prosper only by doing its utmost to Americanize the immigrants and adapting its policies to those of the young democracy...
Asahi, Mainichi and Yomiuri Hochi, the three big Tokyo dailies, all touted the leftward trend. Former militarist editors, now wearing pinkish hues, might privately admit they were hypocrites, but they made a great show of turning coats publicly. General MacArthur's headquarters had summoned the editors last December, the day before the Communists announced their platform, and warned them that they must be fair to new parties. Some editors said they took the warning as a plug for the Communists. And behind their unfamiliar attitude was a feeling that, as an Asahi editor put it, "the new thing...
...right was the Army, sensitive to events in neighboring Argentina, well aware of a conservative trend against the crumbling Popular Front...