Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Santa Fe, going against the trend to low-slung equipment, ordered from Budd 47 "Hi-Level" passenger cars for its transcontinental El Capitan. The road, which has been experimenting with two of the cars for a year, is so pleased with the results that El Capitan will be completely equipped with them by mid-1956. Included in the total: 35 all-chair cars, seating 67 passengers apiece, six diners, six dome lounge cars. While the height (15 ft. 6 in.) will cut speed on the bends, Santa Fe feels that on long-distance runs that drawback is offset by less...
Although a few distinguished books appeared in the mass of low-grade paperbacks, the new trend began $% years ago, when the famed British firm of Penguin set up a U.S. branch in Baltimore. Today Penguins are selling at the rate of 1,500,000 a year, and among the bestsellers are such titles as The Odyssey, The Canterbury Tales and Dante's Inferno. In 1953 Doubleday followed, with Anchor books. They were good to look at, with clean, modern covers, and offered (at 65? to $1.25 a volume) such fine old fare as Trevelyan's History of England...
...second and no less difficult barrier concerns lyrics. I first noticed the trend toward obscurity a number of years ago when Frank Sinatra sand a lyric of which the third verse consisted entirely of "ali-dabi doopy da pha. Oh! fee dee de bah bippidy Oh!" The song, as I remember, was called "An Old Stone House," which seemed to offer no satisfactory clue to the interpretation of the lyric. Although my work and ultimate understanding of this verse makes a fascinating story, I would rather take a contemporary and somewhat easier example...
...Eden, Harriman, Bohlen and I remained to discuss the . . . conversation," recorded Secretary of State Edward Stettinius. "We were in agreement that the trend at the moment seemed to be more toward a three-power alliance than anything else. No progress . . . had yet been made . . . toward building a world organization based on recognition of the sovereign rights of all nations...
ANDRÉ MINAUX, 31, whose work represents one significant trend in French painting: the return to realism and 19th century masters like Courbet and Delacroix. The lessons of cubism and fauve color, thinks Minaux, have by now become the unconscious inheritance automatically guiding and correcting the artist's eye and intelligence, thus leaving painters free to turn to traditional subjects, such as Minaux's French peasants harvesting...