Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British tend to think of their politics as urbane and fairminded. In large measure, they are. But at times the heirs of Cromwell and Pitt are apt to be more virulent than the heirs of Jackson and Truman. British political leaders can deftly cut each other's throats with the most brutal verbal slashes, and British political crowds can raise the fine democratic art of heckling to riotous dimensions. This happened once again in the windup of Britain's election campaign, suggesting that beneath the initially apathetic contest there was really a good deal of passion...
...Republican representation in Congress would be smaller, but it would also tend more to homogeneous Goldwater Republicanism. The obliteration of many Congressional moderates in the party would also leave Goldwater forces as the only visible leadership alternative, should a catastrophe or scandal that decisively discredited the Democrats occur...
...this new world, the liberal arts tend to become a specialty like any other. At a conference of honors program people last May, a brilliant physicist at the University of Pennsylvania declared that no bright physicist was going to teach his subject as a service to non-scientists. Everybody would have to learn it as if he or she was being prepared to "do physics." Indeed, he would not know how to teach it in any other way. And talking recently with sociologists at Smith College, they were saying that the products of the leading graduate schools are rarely prepared...
Bill Kerstetter, Andy Kydes, Bobby Knapp and Captain Lawrie Coburn will see action at halfback. Wally Winslow and Alex Patton will man the halfback slots, and Nat Bowditch will tend the goal...
...possibility was now the Republican Party's choice. But in the wake of the convention, the press defended its misjudgment with a spate of fresh anti-Goldwater comment. "Practically all of Goldwater's votes and views," said the Sacramento Bee, which had opposed Barry all along, "tend toward the enslavement of Americans." Said the Denver Post, "The Republican Party had its eyes open when it nominated Senator Barry Goldwater. It took the step deliberately; it knew what it was doing, and it must be held accountable for the results...