Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over after nine months-four of them as a Viet Cong prisoner. "They told me he was dead and gave me a flight vest he wore, and then they told me to go," said Don sadly. He never saw the grave, but the Viet Cong claimed they would tend it until Dawson could come back after the war to recover the body of his brother, shot down last Nov. 6 in a light reconnaissance plane. For Don, it was time to go home to his wife and four children in Costa Mesa, Calif...
...views on law enforcement, Parker on Police, are required reading for lawmen all over the U.S. At home, the very fact that he has survived three city administrations−and helped them to survive−gives him enormous power and prestige. Moreover, unlike most cops who are content to tend their roses or go fishing in off hours, William Parker (few call him Bill) is a compulsive and all-too-articulate public speaker who tends to view contemporary history through the eyes of such moralists as Jeremiah and Sophocles and Swift...
...says Dr. Clark. "In childhood the delusion is a simple one−the child may pretend that he is really white. When Negro children as young as three are shown white-and Negro-appearing dolls or asked to color pictures of children to look like themselves, many of them tend to reject the dark-skinned dolls as 'dirty' and 'bad' or to color the picture of themselves a light color or a bizarre shade like purple. But the fantasy is not complete, for when asked to identify which doll is like themselves, some Negro children, particularly...
...takes his son Gordon, 13, to ball games at the Astrodome. He treats his wife to dinner out on Saturday evenings, takes the family to a nearby Episcopal church on Sundays, and tries to get in some golf when he can. When visitors drop in, he likes to tend bar, specializing in frozen daiquiris. An adventurous eater, he makes a point of ordering buffalo steak and chocolate-covered beans when such delicacies are available...
...recently retired from Kodak. Dr. Herzberger delivers a heavy-handed sermon to explain that materialism is a bad thing, that fame alone is a bad thing, and that the respect of other people is a good thing. Such thoughts hardly fit into a magazine of "contemporary expression." We might tend to agree with them all, but the modern mind requires more than vague homilies...