Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Houston, it is building two 50-story office buildings-mostly, it seems, because Houston has the tallest west of the Mississippi in the 44-story Humble Oil Building. Mrs. Edward Marcus, wife of a Dallas Neiman-Marcus executive and an admirer of her city, concedes that Dallasites tend "in this first-generation wealth to put money into things that show. It is not comfortable with its money the way Boston and New York...
...Dates Dangerous?" Bombay is headquarters for the nation's movie industry, which turns out some 300 feature-length films a year. A recent and elaborate movie wedding in Bombay drew 10,000 guests, but none of them were considered top-drawer socially. Bombay's society doyens still tend to associate movies with dancing girls and prostitutes, and the movie stars keep much to themselves in their golden ghettos along Juhu Beach, Bandra and Khar...
...James P. Mitchell, Eisenhower's onetime Labor Secretary, now San Francisco's human-relations coordinator and a friend of the Negro feels that "militancy could quite easily antagonize important people who are now prepared or preparing to do something. What Negroes have to remember is something they tend to forget: that they are a minority, and that they can only achieve what they want with the support of the majority." Says Los Angeles Housewife Maureen Hartman: "I don't see why the Negroes are weeping and wailing. This is not Birmingham. They can go anywhere. They...
...than done. Even if it can be done, excessive humidity results in moisture condensing on the windows in cold weather. The second is to spray antistatic chemicals on the rug. But the available antistatic sprays, which are similar to preparations for neutralizing phonograph records, are only temporarily effective and tend to leave a tacky residue that makes them get dirty more easily. The third method is to weave copper wires into the warp and woof of the carpet and then ground the whole thing onto a convenient water or radiator pipe. Since this adds about $1 to the cost...
Those who persist tend to be young, female, and in love with a special region or a special time, often the time of their own adolescence. Their subject matter tends toward an interest in nature, animals, or those of lower social standing than themselves. The style tends to be obtrusively simple, as in amateur wood carving...