Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...common experience was that of Charles F. Ayers who upon graduation "went to work for the Aberthaw Company of Boston and stayed with them briefly until I became a victim of the great depression of mid-1930. Undaunted and completely ignorant of the economic trend of the time in which unemployment bulked large, I caught on with the Fuller Company...
...also observed that there has been a growing trend towards irrationality in the United States, "nourished and exploited by illiberal, scheming minds . . . with patriotic pretensions." Pusey indicated that he felt the current atmosphere of irrationality may provide the new generation with "a more convincing incentive to act rationally...
...once the commissioners finished their statement, they disagreed sharply on current handling of the atomic program. The three Truman Administration holdovers (Henry DeWolf Smyth, Thomas E. Murray and Eugene M. Zuckert) warned against a trend toward centralization of authority in Chairman Lewis Strauss. Physicist Smyth declared that on some matters Strauss had closed his fellow commissioners out. Industrialist Murray urged equal "authority, responsibility and access to information" for all five members of the commission...
...Cross (1933), DeMille never before has given Scripture such a generous helping hand; the new Ten Commandments will cost an estimated $6,000,000 to make, and will have what Paramount's publicity department calls "the largest film set in motion-picture history." DeMille feels that the present trend toward Bible movies is a symptom that "the world is beginning to realize how deep the trouble is that it is in, and that there is only one way out-the law laid down by Moses and its interpretation by Jesus and Mohammed and other great religious leaders...
Chrysler has given Designer Virgil M. Exner, a former Raymond Loewy assistant, a free hand on its 1955s-so free, in fact, that even last week minor changes were still being made on the new models on the test track. Chrysler, which has run against the trend to long, low styling, has reversed itself. Dodge and Plymouth will both be longer and lower. Chrysler's most powerful engine will be raised from 235 h.p. to 245 h.p. or better...