Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wild Ones. The Clacton riot climaxed a longtime rivalry between the sartorially splendid Mods and the hot-rodding Rockers. One British sociologist claims that their hostility is based on class. The Mods are artisans and office workers, he claims, and look down on the Rockers, who tend to be scruffy worker types. As a London Mod explains the feud, "The Rockers are just interested in their cycles. This isolates them. Mods are more aware, fast moving, hip. With us, it's like a club. If you wear the right clothes, you're accepted...
...contrast, would rather go naked than don a leather jacket. Mod styles tend toward pastels and velvet, collarless polo shirts with horizontal stripes, and ankle-high "plimsoles" (sneakers) with thick white rubber soles. Mod girls wear no jewelry and no makeup save brown eye shadow and false eyelashes. Hairdos are short; flat shoes are In. Skirts vary from ankle-length to midcalf...
Faced with the competition of the big-city press and other news media, suburban dailies tend to be lackluster compendia of wire-service copy, plumped out with movie schedules and strictly local news. Such papers may rank low on journalism's merit scale, but they often can be immensely profitable businesses. One lucrative example is the Macy chain in New York State's Westchester and Rockland Counties, where the nine Macy papers have been making large profits for 40 years. Last week this highly successful suburban group was sold to an even more profitable smalltown chain...
...Curtis Prout '37, Chief of Medicine to the University Health Services, said that the pre-med advisors vary considerably in their effectiveness and tend toward "overconfident counseling." The present system, under which an M.D. is affiliated with each House as an advisor "lacks a homogeneous policy," he said...
...people reach the upper limits of accumulated wealth, fewer of them tend to own homes and autos. Mostly older, they favor rented luxury apartments and hired automobiles...