Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Geneva, therefore the most accessible of Switzerland's three top ski resorts, Gstaad prides itself on its "family-like ambiance." The village's popularity may be measured in part by the declining number of hotel rooms; like a horde of men who came to dinner, winter vacationers tend to linger on forever, end up plunking down an average $70,000 for a plot of land and another $50,000 for a chalet to build on it. To some, a year-round retreat there is worth even more: Actress Elizabeth Taylor picked up a little shack in the valley...
...student beset by doubts about his intellectual worth, the role of guidance can be crucial. Because they cannot derive the satisfaction which comes from obtaining the highest grades, academically average students tend to rely heavily on the influence of teachers for stimulation and direction, Whitla says...
...long as they stay around the Square and don't wander into the shabby area a few blocks below Dunster House. Since we are judging the individual on his merits we might as well forget about the blatantly unequal opportunities in education, employment and housing and culture which tend to maim the individual Negro...
...such circumstances, Povich has developed a refreshingly level approach to his craft. Other sportswriters tend to search out heroes on the field and to draft purple poetry about them. Povich sees an assembly of grown and muscle-bound men earnestly grunting over a boys' pastime. The sight gives him pleasure. ''You learn to detach yourself," he says. 'After all. it's only a game. You don't have to live and die every day. If you don't take it seriously, you can have some...
...viruses are so new to science that medical researchers still do not know such important details as the differences in their incubation periods after they infect a victim. New York City's concurrent outbreaks of flu and paraflu may provide some useful clues. Pediatricians have noted that parents tend to come down with a moderately severe illness about six days after a child gets sick...