Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About every ten year, Carmine DeSapio observed yesterday, political winds in a city tend to blow in strange directions, and citizens get an urge to vote against the established leadership, whatever the issues...
William G. Perry, director of the Bureau of Study Counsel, raises, among other things, some important questions about grading methods. In his essay, Perry contends that graders often tend to penalize students for "bull, relevance without facts," but frequently reward "cow, facts without relevance," because "cow" more than "bull" is an indication that the student has done the required work...
...slowly enough to keep the same face toward the sun, as Mercury does. In either case, Mariner II's report that the planet's surface is about the same temperature all over calls for some new thinking. During its long, possibly unending night, the dark side should tend to cool off. Why does it stay...
...only a small percentage of the nation's doctors would survive a nuclear war and that medical supplies and hospitals would be virtually non-existent. If this is so the seriously wounded will probably die, while the rest will have to fight disease in a radioactive environment that will tend to lower their resistance...
Because of the scarcity of manpower few employers at the time of hiring pay attention to a student's record in the university. Hence the incentives to study are small, and the brightest students tend to be drawn into politics. They feel that politics is a meaningful activity in a sense that studies are not; and that political agitation and violence are a legitimate means of self-expression...