Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority of the Negroes denied that their race kept them from getting ahead as fast as other people. When faced with discrimination. Negroes tend to become either passively or actively regretful-they, either feel depressed or they get angry. Only about one Negro in 16 believes the Negro is at fault; overall, the Negroes place the blame for the behavior of the whites upon the culture and tradition of the whites and hence believe a good part of the problems of race relations is one of changing the white culture. Negroes do not place all of the blame...
Later, the potholes in the plot tend to become troublesome, particularly in Bates's dealings with an oversexed landlady who helps him to conceal a corpse. But Director Clive Donner (The Guest, Genevieve) maneuvers between black comedy and melodrama with absorbing skill. Maintaining a light, steady touch on the story line, he deploys his camera for a series of witty asides, mocking views of upper-crust life as it is temptingly reproduced in the advertising on the lid of a cookie tin. And one ripe interlude at a hunt ball finds all the horsiest young socialites in full...
Purchase of a lot ($4,200-$12,650) carries with it runway privileges for two airplanes. Smilie has also staked out space for a shopping center and a motel. Residents of Sierra Sky Park think nothing of going to lunch with friends 300 miles away. In fact, they tend to cultivate far-flung friendships-it gives them an excuse...
Monopolies tend to dull with age, and sporting monopolies are hardly sport at all. The Yankees, for all their skills, team" are with the now fans. New But York's there is "second one ancient monopoly that only grows more exciting with the years. That is the U.S. hold on the America's Cup - symbol of international supremacy in yachting. By the end of this summer, a doughty group of British yachtsmen will have spent close to $600,000 in an attempt to remove the ungainly, Victorian cup from its accustomed place of honor in the New York...
...south coast ventures Deborah Kerr, beautifully coiffed and dressed for a royal weekend, doing her primmest impersonation of a gentlewoman fallen upon difficult days. Indeed, no one would suspect that she is a convicted murderess but recently released from prison. So Dame Edith Evans hires Deborah to tend her garden -where nothing grows-and to keep an eye on Granddaughter Hayley Mills...