Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could let this country go to pot, like the forests in China, Greece, and Turkey. But I don't think we're going to let it, now. It's been awfully nice, just in my lifetime to see things being done to halt that trend. I've begun to learn something, to make a little advance on what my father knew. Someone's going to carry it on from here. Maybe my sons. I'd like that...
...admission to the National Press Club last month. The 911-member club had never admitted a Negro before, and the members split into two sharply divided groups over his application (TIME. Jan. 31). But Lautier's backers confidently expected the members to go along with the national trend toward desegregation and end their color bar. On the eve of the club's referendum vote. Lautier wrote a column for Washington's Negro semiweekly Afro-American, personally attacking two members of the club, George Durno of International News Service and Jerry Greene of the New York Daily News...
...This trend is not new, nor is it likely to become standard procedure for future novelists. In the Thirties the group labeled "Esoterics" practiced it with varying degrees of transient success. Andre Gide in France, by giving his works the title of novels perhaps broadened beyond all reason the size qualifications of a novelist. These works are really not novels at all, but allegorical essays, lacking "mass" and concentrating fully on style and theme...
...clear that he is perfectly willing to order American forces into battle without a previous Congressional vote, if the interests of national security should demand it in an emergency. Thus his request for Congressional approval of his Formosa proposal does not represent a real change from the historical trend establishing the Executive's war making powers. Like his predecessors, Eisenhower realizes that whatever the Constitution says, wars are not usually declared in advance...
...change in suits has been just as dramatic. A generation ago, the double-breasted suit-usually with padded shoulders and large lapels-was the archsymbol of conservatism (it also camouflaged a potbelly). Now the trend is to the more casual, natural-shouldered, single-breasted jacket. Before World War II, double-breasted suits accounted for 40-50% of all cuttings; the share is now down...