Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...window over the city of Leningrad. The result sent the whole Soviet art world into a tizzy and crowds swarming to the Moscow gallery to see his work. At the gallery Glazunov has already collected three volumes of scribbled comment (ranging from "Lecher!" to "Hurrah for Glazunov!"). Trend to date: two-to-one in favor of Glazunov...
...defense. The declaration that the 1957 defense appropriation is $24 billion (down 5.6% from 1956) was an obvious attempt to invite comparison with the U.S. defense budget (estimated for 1957 at $41 billion). Actually, there has been no reduction in the Soviet's armed forces, and the trend, as in the U.S., has been toward more highly specialized equipment, e.g., guided missiles and submarines-suggesting increased rather than decreased defense spending...
Stone explained the drop in contributions as part of a steady downward trend in nation-wide student drive totals which began after World War II. "This is a universal thing based on a lack of real emergencies," he asserted, adding that "more and more publicity doesn't seem to do any good...
...three men agreed, however, that the trend toward centralization of press, radio, television, and motion pictures in the hands of a few men was a form of censorship which could only lead to total-itarianism...
...Stevenson observes this trend in facets of American life outside the political area, but his particular concern is with the dangerous potentials of the communications system in an election. He fears that one party could buy an election by saturating television and radio channels with its candidates and its propaganda, thus playing on the herd tendencies in America...