Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given a steadily increasing share of their votes to Communist candidates. Last week, a little better off-thanks to the $200 million which Italian governments have pumped into Sardinia's poverty-stricken economy in the past four years (TIME, May 21, 1956)-the islanders reversed their Communist trend (the Red vote fell off from 22.3% to 17.5%). The dominant Christian Democrats increased their vote (from 41% to 41.8%). But the real surprise of the election was the showing made on his first campaign in Sardinia by ebullient, 72-year-old Achille Lauro, founder and sole proprietor of Italy...
...office space. The Federal Government has earmarked $39 million for land purchases and clearance. Out of the city funds will come $7,000,000 for parking facilities (3,200 autos) to lure suburban shoppers. Says Lee, whose coup inspired envious comment in other Connecticut cities: "We are reversing the trend. In five years families will be moving into the city instead of out to the suburbs...
...fight to reverse the trend, Dick Lee epitomizes a long-needed new look in U.S. city government. Says he: "The old type mayor was a ceremonial figure, concerned with marriages, wakes, strawberry festivals, ribbon-cutting. Today a mayor has to be an administrator and planner." A shipping clerk's son, Lee grew up in New Haven's Irish 17th Ward, after high school cut his political teeth covering city hall for the Journal-Courier. A peptic ulcer gave him an Army medical discharge in World War II; he went to Yale not as a student but as publicity...
Canada's powerful Liberals, 168-strong in Parliament v. the 50 seats of their Progressive Conservative challengers, went to elections with smug confidence. Just before the vote last week they canceled an advertising campaign, to save needless expense. But with the first returns, an astonishing trend set in. From half a dozen eastern constituencies that were long firmly Liberal came the flash: "Tories Leading." The Tory surge grew as it moved west. Quickly the last seat of the overwhelming Liberal majority fell, and the Liberals' 22-year rule over Canada came to an end. When final returns were...
...know") to study, play an occasional game of tennis and stroll about the hills. But he had had his effect on U.S. education-in the great-books seminars that sprang up, in the whole effort to cut across academic fields and search for the unity of knowledge, in the trend toward giving college students more independence and in the new interest in liberal education for adults. Last week Amherst found the old pioneer still the philosophical idealist, trying to find "the meaning and purpose of the total human scene." "Courage, beauty, truth, freedom, justice, honesty,'' he once said...