Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Supai is inacessible all winter: the dirt roads are washed out and the cliffs are slicked with ice. The Havasupai Indian tribe close the half-dozen tourist cabins they operate, send their children to the government boarding school, and tend their few sheep...
Suburbanites who once read two metropolitan dailies-morning and afternoon-now tend to drop the afternoon in favor of the suburban daily. In fast-growing Cobb County, 15 miles northwest of Atlanta, people often bypass the afternoon Atlanta Journal for the local Marietta Journal, which generally runs as much national and international news as the Atlanta paper does, and much more Cobb County news. "We try to assume there are no Detroit papers," says Mark McKee, vice president of the suburban Macomb Daily, which enjoyed a circulation jump from 15,000 to 40,000 during the 134-day Detroit newspaper...
...only acceptable course, then, is to have the House elected at the same time as the President. This would undoubtedly change the nature of the House in the long run. Members would probably tend to become more closely identified with the program of their party's Presidential candidates and to become more dependent on their success. There would be a slow, gradual tendency for the gap between what James MacGregor Burns has called the Presidential and the Congress branches of the two parties to narrow...
...youth whose father makes him tend the lawn, Wards offers an electric leaf sweeper at $87.95. Sears, which has half the total catalogue market, has an 80-page section in its new catalogue on recreational equipment, including golf carts, scuba gear, and a 17-ft. cabin cruiser...
...felt that due to the extensive government funds now granted for research, doctors and professors tend to devote themselves to study and research. Consequently, they neglect the "human element" in medicine, Ebert noted...