Word: trended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election in Oklahoma's second District, Democrat William G. Stigler (a half-Choctaw) beat Republican Edwin Oliver Clark (a quarter-Choctaw) for Congress by 3,700 votes. The election was advertised as a crucial test of whether the long Republican trend could be stopped (TIME, March 27). Both sides had poured in money and big-gun campaign speakers...
German Nazis and Spanish Fascists, still alert, watch and welcome a trend which they did not create but know how to use. The U.S. will not halt and reverse the trend simply by damning it as "pro-German," "anti-Allied," "Fascist," or even "anti-democratic." The U.S. cue is to understand Latin American nationalism for what it is, channel it to Good Neighborly ends by convincing Latin Americans that they can be for themselves without being against...
Above all, Dean Russell offers a Heraclitean hope of eternal flux in man's affairs, recalls that school reforms have often come after defeats. The Dean fears the U.S. itself may be least progressive: he sees a growing trend toward medievalism, scholasticism and general educational reaction...
...clear: the military was moving to dictate the interpretation of events. TIME'S Will Lang cabled from Anzio: "The press, which has campaigned since the war's beginning for rapid release of the worst as well as of the best news, has received a definite setback. The trend is to controlled censorship, to the Army's doctrine of its vested interest in the news" (TIME...
...Dividends. Reports from the consumer industries were still sparse last week. One hint of the trend: gross sales of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. ballooned to a new high of $414,263,939. But profits were down...