Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noted that European Roman Catholics and Protestant Americans tend to identify Christianity with the West, and anti-Christ with the East. "The Pope's speech may indicate that he is willing to be influential in toning down this notion of a Crusade against Communism," Oberman suggested...
Independence is not merely expediency since Lodge is a sincerely liberal Republican of the Case-Cooper variety. Just as images tend to merge in the campaign, so do positions on the issues. Teddy Kennedy is following the Administration line; Lodge attempts to draw distinctions and offer constructive alternatives. So far he has been unable to find a vital, vote-winning area of disagreement. On medical care for the aged Lodge opposes the compulsory social security approach, but he manages to skirt the basic liberal-conservative clash and to emerge supporting a bigger and better plan "of the individual's choice...
Nasution still has a long way to go toward that goal. Much of his army is overage and undereducated. Moreover, the people tend to accept the widespread taunt that "corruption" and "colonel" are synonymous. The officers have houses, cars, pensions, and a high standard of living to maintain. At the recent Asian games, one army colonel was arrested for embezzling $45,000 in ticket sales. Another colonel reportedly helicoptered over a posh Djkarta suburb, picked out a house he liked, alighted near by and ordered the tenants to clear...
Familiar as they are with its products, millions of Americans also tend to assume that they know all about the advertising business. Moviegoers have a clear impression of the nature of life on Madison Avenue: it is a combination of Sydney Greenstreet bullying Clark Gable in The Hucksters and Rock Hudson seducing Doris Day in Lover Come Back. In the public mind, the advertising business is firmly established as a grey-flannel world of three-Gibson lunches, three-button jackets, unabashed throat slicing and zany argot ("Let's smear some of this...
Holworthy and Matthews depots are open eight hours per week, and Greenough's four. "But," said manager Howe, "we haven't had any lines yet. Freshmen tend to form lines, so we've got two guys in every depot until we've finished a study to see how many are needed...