Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more concrete realm than these sentiments, experience has shown many medical schools that some students with the avowed goal of psychiatry sometimes tend to downgrade their basic science courses. This is a genuine handicap, to a student, who must master the basics no matter what his specialty...
Brains, most handlers insist, are the key to a hound's success in topflight competition. In the starting box, unable to see, dull-witted dogs tend to relax; the smart ones stay tense and ready. Says Florida Trainer F. B. Stutz: "They learn to listen for the sound of the rabbit coming up behind the boxes. They gauge just how much the noise has to fade before the lure is far enough away to trip the doors, and they're ready to jump when those doors open...
...line will probably hold, if only because Lyndon Johnson is not likely to push too hard, will tend to ask only what he can reasonably expect to get. His legislative program and its probable fate in Congress shape up something like this...
...operation is often done immediately after childbirth. It is technically easier then, and more convenient because the patient is already in the hospital. Surgeons' fees average around $200. Increasing use of contraceptive pills among women who can afford them may tend to cut down female sterilization. But there is no pill...
...Switzerland as a freewheeling money market. Beirut bankers are convinced that they can often glimpse the future in the movement of money. Last week they were glimpsing harder than ever. As one banker explained, "It's just before the Ramadan, the month-long Moslem fast when people tend to be jittery. This is the scheming season...