Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of all it was reflected in the political battles at state and local levels. U.S. voters tend to feel helpless about the national economy and national tax policies; it's all too big to be understandable. They can, however, do something about state taxes-and a candidate can ignore that fact only at his peril...
...resplendent production,* with sets and costumes by Designer Robert O'Hearn, took a different tack-and was far more successful. The soaring stone columns and arches of St. Catherine's Church in Act I looked enduringly solid-a far cry from the standard productions in which they tend to flap and billow like a clothesline of wet wash. The steeply gabled gingerbread houses of Nürnberg in Act II looked as though they had been rooted to the Met's stage for a hundred years. Visually and vocally, Die Meistersinger was as successful a new production...
Looking through the league, it looks as if Harvard, Yale, and Brown are the real Ivy contenders with Dartmouth given a slight chance in spite of its loss to Brown. The Bruins have also dropped a contest to the Bulldogs, but they tend to grow stronger as the season progresses. Last year, Brown, in typical Ivy League fashion, knocked off the first place Crimson eleven...
...their bloody battle, both Scranton and Dilworth tend to make each other out as the worst sort of political brigand. Yet neither is anything of the sort, and indeed they have much in common. Both have deep family roots in Pennsylvania. Both were born to wealth. Both are highly educated-and their training includes graduate degrees in the hard school of Pennsylvania politics. Finally, both Dilworth and Scranton are deeply concerned about their state's situation...
...honest physicians with her free toxin-antitoxin shots; the minister pompously complains of Marcy's interfering when she tells of tubercular prisoners in the penitentiary. The voices of the poor exalt Marcy: it is recalled that she went more than 20 miles through waist-deep snow to tend the dying child of a miner when no doctor would get out of bed to do the job, that she was kind to a halfwit, that she soothed an unjustly condemned man in his last hours...