Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pretensions keep his wife Nora and his ambitious daughter Sara in poverty. Melody will not tend bar--he has hired a barkeep. His daughter must wait on table while he drinks away the meager profits, and he keeps the establishment in debt through the extravagant upkeep of his greatest joy, a white thoroughbred mare...
Gossip has persisted that one or all of the shots were fired not from the Texas School Book Depository building, where the fact of Oswald's presence is undisputed, but from the railroad overpass that the presidential cavalcade was approaching. This would tend to prove either that 1) Oswald, in the School Book Depository building, was innocent, since the shots had come from the overpass; or 2) Oswald, in the School Book Depository building, had an accomplice on the overpass. If the shots had come from the School Book Depository building, they would have hit the President and Governor Connally...
...would give groups of doctors, lawyers and businessmen a status in the Houses similar to that of the journalists on Nieman Fellowships. Through this means he hopes students will realize that satisfying intellectual careers can be found in many fields--not just in college teaching. The innovation would tend to break down any "career monopoly" that the faculty might have...
Although few are thoroughly pessimistic, many are "realistic." They find the naivete of most white students amusing at best: "Liberals at Harvard tend to think in terms of good vs. bad. Every Negro at Harvard thinks in terms of power." And those who avoid such statements do so not because they disagree, but, generally, "because they think the whole thing is so futile...
...another time this particular student described what he called the "white liberal syndrome." Many white liberals, he said, tend to suggest academic solutions to complex problems, and so make the Negroes they are working with, who feel the problems more acutely, feel inferior. They also have a tendency, he said, to see Negroes not as people, but as problems. And he suggested that some enter the movement because "they cannot come to grips with white society. They go where their color makes them naturally superior...