Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British-style law and order. Yet Bustamante's cousin and arch political rival, Norman Washington Manley, 71, has a point when he charges that the government has failed to get the country moving as fast as it should. In private, some of Bustamante's own ministers tend to agree...
There are still problems of nationality and temperament. German girls are judged good workers but eat too much to suit the French, while the French, claim the English, tend to leave rings around the tub. Italians are meticulous ironers but recalcitrant dishwashers, the Swiss overly concerned with dust but not too quick about doing something about it. The Americans? Said one experienced au pair hand last week: "They'll have to learn to get along with one bath a week without shrieks of complaint, mend their own clothes and not throw them away; la vie, after...
...Washington's new four-lane Capital Beltway, which circles the metropolitan area, intersects the six-lane Route 355 and the four-lane Route 240; and the designers have ingeniously arranged it so that all three superhighways come together at once in a magnificent swirl of concrete spaghetti. Tourists tend to think their frustration is their own fault; it is all but inconceivable to the average mind that on such an elaborate interlacement of roads, eastbound traffic on the beltway cannot go north on Route 355; westbound beltway traffic cannot go south on Route 355; southbound on 355 cannot...
...capitalists have created a mass consumer market based on economy-sized cars, readymade clothing, expanding paychecks and easy installment plans. In doing so, they have not only doubled production while reducing the work week since 1950, but have created across the Continent a new breed of property owners who tend to be more conservative simply because they have more to conserve...
...likely, though, that the present situation can last forever. The rising importance of economic influences within the various ethnic groups will tend to split them up and assimilate them, and the day will come when a Greek can run for office outside Lowell, and an Irishman can win in the North End. In the meantime, though, the best hope for the Democratic Party and the state lies with the Kennedy's and their allies. There is much truth to the charge that they ran out on the state in 1960, but the fact is that ever since John Kennedy began...