Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deeds in leopard fashion by pouncing on the backs of unsuspecting victims from the low-hanging branches of forest trees, slashing their backs and necks with razor-sharp knives fitted to their fingers like claws. In Tanganyika, however, lions are man's most prevalent enemy. There the fashion trend is toward lion skins. Some 40 years ago in the bush of Mkalama District, the private stable of lionmen trained and kept by one ambitious "sorcerer" (a practitioner of black magic as opposed to a witch doctor, who deals in white magic) committed an estimated 200 murders in a single...
...Taken out of context, the statistic that there are nearly 4% fewer public school graduates in the freshman class than there were three years ago is significant, but not alarming. But the figure takes on additional significance when it is realized that it reverses a post-war trend that was expected to continue. The new trend shows every sign of continuing unless the Board of Admissions makes a conscious attempt to regulate admissions from public and private schools...
There is some merit in all these arguments in favor of the present trend, but basically the arguments are fallacious. They are based upon misconceptions about preparatory schools, Harvard's reputation, and the nation's financial condition. Although some preparatory schools have scholarship programs, the student who goes into an exclusive New England prep school is quite different from the one who leaves it. There also seems to be the assumption that everybody would like to go to a preparatory school and that everyone wants to go to Harvard. There are several million public school students in this nation, most...
Reacting against this tendency, Piel's Inc. recently instituted a series of cartoon ads featuring Harry and Bert, which attempted a "soft sell." These proved popular enough to inspire imitators, but there was a limit to the trend. It was easy enough to be amusing about beer, but hard to "soft sell" a product such as aspirin or laxatives. The public must be shown what misery results when these aids are not employed, and consequently, schematic diagrams of digestive systems are exhibited with appropriate sound effects...
Driving force behind this leftward trend is Bandaranaike's Minister of Agriculture and Food, dynamic, ruthless Philip Gunawardena. A rich man's son who learned about Communism at the University of Wisconsin and New York's Union Square, Gunawardena calls himself "a Marxist, first, last and always." From the moment Bandaranaike took him into the government last year (ostensibly to keep him quiet), Gunawardena has stepped up his demands for more and more nationalization. He has already won authority to control all rice and sugar sales. His latest proposal would give him the right to control...