Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such, it will be in complete contrast to the lavish affairs of the 19th and early 20th century. The installation of A. Lawrence Lowell in 1909 climaxed the trend towards lavishness with a three-day affair before an audience of 13,000 people...
...India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who had done everything in his power to block the new state and to delay its creation. Andhra was specifically designed to fit the largest block of Telegu-speaking people-some 20 millions-into one state. Nehru feared this would set a trend towards the Balkanization of the Indian Republic along the lines of India's 15 languages, 250 dialects. Five other linguistic groups were already demanding that new states be carved for those who spoke Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarathi, Kanarese, Malayalam...
...trend is away from seeking specialists-except for specialized jobs-but to go after men with wide, overall interests, especially those who have demonstrated qualities of leadership and ability to get along with people. Industry is discovering that the man who can run one company can run another one making an entirely different product, because the qualities required for most top jobs are virtually identical-the ability to judge and pick men, to adjust easily to change, to make sound decisions quickly and firmly...
...movie figures, notably Robert Montgomery, had long been familiar faces on television; some, like Lucille Ball, Ann Sothern and Robert Cummings, had propped up sagging careers by taking the television plunge. This season's rash of film stars on TV amounts to a sudden upswing in the trend, but the big-studio, big-star antipathy toward television still exists...
...even if there were thousands, nay, whole cities who were going along with this (choke) disgusting trend, those of us who remain red blooded American youths should denounce Sidney the parrot for the crooked bird he is, and stand by Fearless Fosdick...