Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Polling for Trends. Where each Congressman is allowed one annual Government-paid trip to his home district, Chamberlain made 14 his first year, 18 his second, at a personal cost of $76.34 per trip. Most of all, Chamberlain learned to rely on a system of periodic polls, sending out questionnaires to 150,000 Sixth District voters (each poll costs him $700). "The returns may not be complete," says Chamberlain, "and they certainly are not infallible, but they always show a trend...
...Republicans have long depended on the small farming town as the center of their Midwestern strength. But recent years have seen a population trend away from the farm town to the cities. Indeed, with U.S. industry growing rapidly in the farm states, the importance of the farm vote itself has diminished. As a dramatic example, in Kansas, for years an absolute citadel of Republican-voting farmers, agriculture now ranks as seventh among the state's sources of personal income. ¶Farmers are especially sensitive to the inflationary effects of big-labor wage boosts and to Senate revelations of union...
...other trend is an expression of pure and terrifying anti-Semitism, inflamed by sympathy to the cause of equal rights for the Negro evinced by the majority of the Southern Jewish community. Rabbi Jacob Rothschild, spiritual leader of the razed temple, has long supported the Supreme Court decisions. The blast is intended as a warning against Jewish sympathy to compliance with the Court decision...
America has come to this state of moral complacency and emptiness as a result of the same trend which has done so much to kill the art of satire in this country, explained Vidal in an address sponsored by the Advocate at Longfellow Hall...
...million debt, and strengthened Philco's position in the laundry field by buying out Bendix. Skinner is convinced that Philco will come close to last year's sales despite its first five bad months. Says he: "We are in a pleasant position. We believe this trend will continue into...