Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proved so effective in the Proposition 14 campaign, CLEAN collected almost 600,000 signatures to put Proposition 16 on the November ballot-nearly one-third more than were needed. No one is surprised that the proposition is being supported by many a candidate for the state legislature, men who tend to hear their constituents loud and clear. As one high elective official in Southern California puts it: "If you say you're against CLEAN, you automatically become a 'dirty.' " According to a statewide poll taken for the Long Beach Independent-Press-Telegram, Proposition 16 is favored...
There are a number of important factors that tend to hold down the amount of short selling. One is that the short seller has to deposit with the broker at least 70% of the cash value of the stock at the time of the deal, thus tying up his capital. Also, the seller has to pay to the lender any dividends issued on the stock during the period of the loan. If the stock value jumps, the broker can demand more cash, thus forcing the seller to rush for cover. Most important, any profits made on a short sale...
...students have taken the course and come out untouched by the unique experience. Many, however, tend to give a distorted picture when describing it, probably because it is easier to impress a listener with talse of a dangerous and scaring experience than to express the more subtle and less virile sentiment of group unity which evolves over the year. When the Harvard student talks about 120 to a 'Cliffe, he is apt to discuss the many times he "weathered the storms of a vicious, hostile session. You'd better keep away," he adds wisely...
Most of the many casual rumors circulating about the course are more myth than reality. All applicants have heard stories about the dangers involved in taking the class, so of course they tend to latch on to the incidents of aggression when they arise as proof that their fears were justified. As one section leader in the course commented, "most of the people who are afraid of ending up 'casualties' of Soc Rel 120, are usually those who are most afraid of their own aggressive tendencies; they are more concerned with hurting someone and exposing themselves, than with being hurt...
...back of the auditorium, watching a rehearsal. Then he leaps up, steps over some seats and halts a bevy of girl dancers onstage. "How about raising the hems above the knee? Hmm. Better check the knees first." (Titters.) Now he is off to one of the rehearsal rooms to tend to a soprano who is feeling neglected. "It's freezing in here," she shivers. (Singers hate air conditioning more than they hate other singers.) Ignoring the air-conditioning controls, Bing ceremoniously goes to the wall and turns the knob for the intercom system. "There," he purrs in his caramel...