Word: trends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the 40 days of the world crisis, the trend to the U.S. was often lost in the gunsmoke; yet it was the manner in which the contestants were behaving in the test that affected the course of world opinion. U.S. Middle Eastern policy was the target of angry criticism in Europe and unofficial Washington, but it was precisely this policy that demonstrated to the world, In terms of high drama, the U.S.'s traditional adherence to the principles of law and justice. U.S. policy on Hungary was criticized as too little and too late (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...pack state troopers and more alert state and local officials, the U.S.'s traffic-death toll declined by some 12% during October. The month's 3,450 traffic-death total reversed a steady, month-by-month (for 19 months) increase, said the National Safety Council. If the trend to more careful driving continues, the U.S.'s road toll for 1956 should hold below the council's earlier death estimate of 42,000-the population of Greenwich, Conn., Oshkosh, Wis. or Vancouver, Wash...
...discipline strictly seperated from its logical components, has fallen into general intellectual disrepute. In the College, able concentrators are often discouraged from pursuing an education in a sub-area that they view as an intellectual tundra, turning to other fields or to other aspects of Government. The trend is repeated among graduate students, who either go elsewhere for a broad training in international problems or enroll in the more strictly defined regional studies programs. At present, there are fewer than ten graduate students involved in the two-year program in International Affairs at the Littauer Center. Continuing opposition...
...Last week the bureau, closing its books on its July 1, 1956 re-estimate of the population, proved that women's ascendancy was no idle boost. The new findings: for every 100 females there are 98.4 men, a further drop in the ratio, caused partly by the continuing trend of female longevity, partly by a heavy reduction in male immigration to the U.S. after the great wave of arrivals at the turn of the century...
...centuries-old trend was unaccountably reversed. The lake began to rise rapidly, spilling over into the mud flats and inundating the clay-and-sand islands that dotted its shallows. The rising water level created its own hazards. Grazing lands were flooded, and immense expanses of papyrus set adrift. In the course of one howling storm, 16 Kotoko fishermen in a four-boat flotilla were driven into a field of floating papyrus and held captive by the sinewy stems. The crew of one boat managed to cut their way out of the papyrus jungle when they drifted into shallow water...