Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rehearsal clothes in which this Hamlet is performed tend to reduce the actors to the unregality of their garb. But Shakespeare's kingliest crown is English, and as this 400th anniversary year begins, Richard Burton's lips are brushing it with glory...
...transom, and the smooth sides of their hulls are broken with a series of jutting longitudinal strakes, like steps. In high waves, the strakes and deep V keep the hull level, nose down so that it knifes through the waves, while flat-sterned powerboats tend to leap off the crest of each swell and crash heavily into the trough. The result, according to Bertram: "less slip, more control"-and 40% higher speeds...
Surprisingly, the kinds of students seeking advice, far from being mostly in academic trouble, tend to distribute themselves proportionately in rank groupings, including a number of students with four solid...
Psychiatrists took relaxed views of the question. "Adults always tend to overstate their sexual lives," said one reputable doctor. "The only difference between adults today and those of a generation ago is that they are finding their sex partners in their home towns instead of patronizing brothels and the like...
Washday Rolls. The first problem is getting seed capital. American banks are usually not interested in helping, and foreign bankers tend to shun the little man in favor of big companies. Many beginners have to scrape deep to supply their own capital; others are forced to borrow on a short-term basis at interest rates that range from 18% to 25%. These charges, plus high import duties on American-made equipment, make many foreign ventures much more expensive to set up than similar ones...