Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...POLITICAL LABELS A DANGEROUS TREND...
Having proclaimed last week as American Education Week, President Eisenhower got off a few thoughts on intellectual freedom at his press conference. A reporter asked whether he would care to comment on "the anti-intellectual trend in our country which expresses itself in hostility to new ideas or different ideas or even traditional ideas." Without even bothering to brush aside the reporter's premise, the President said that he was against only one idea-the idea that a nation can shut off ideas and grow strong...
Marilyn Monroe overdeveloped Hollywood's fetish for sultriness, and Audrey Hepburn reversed the trend, substituting for the revered sweater a combination of spriteliness and naivete. And now Anna Magnani, the Italian actress starring in Jean Renoir's The Golden Coach, has presented moviegoers with a new idea of feminine acting. Instead of emphasizing the body, the voice, or even the personality, she relies wholly on her face to express the emotion of each dramatic situation...
Columnist DAVID LAWRENCE: There is a good prospect of a Republican sweep in 1956. The long-range trend has not departed from the Republicans and can be recovered when a popular personality is at the head of the ticket. It seems certain that Mr. Eisenhower will be drafted...
...become much commoner. There has been no detectable increase in New England or the Southeast, but some big cities of the middle Atlantic seaboard report a moderate increase. In some smaller Midwestern cities and the border states, vasectomy has become a fad, with doctors themselves setting the trend and joking about having been "clipped." In one prairie city of 250,000, two urologists who share an office do an annual average of 50 vasectomies apiece. Around Los Angeles the increase has been marked but moderate...