Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...private talks with strangers, words like "dig," "bugged" and "gassed" tend to float unnaturally on the top of his conversation, but once his credentials are established, they disappear. Balding and gently unforceful in speech and manner, Bob Newhart seems less like a comedian than like a fellow who is about to ask if he may go downstairs and read the meter -which is the essence of his appeal. may like but do not require 76 trombones backing up a song. As of last week, seven of the 22 off-Broadway productions were musicals, getting along nicely without monumental sets, orchestra...
...Modern automobiles have a lowered silhouette with an acutely angled windshield, which greatly hampers entrance and exit," he wrote. "The smaller automobiles may add the additional problem of narrower doors and often depressed floors and offset control pedals. The enthusiast may tend to forget that he is using the muscles of the chest and shoulder girdle in a fashion to which he is not accustomed when he first acquires his new automobile.'' The hip and back symptoms are caused by the necessity of rotating the hip when entering or leaving a smaller car and "limitations in foot room...
...critical aspects of the world situation have raised the Democratic convention stocks of Johnson and Stevenson. They also have given Senator Symington a better opportunity to exploit his pioneer criticisms of the Eisenhower military defense programs. They tend to accent unfavorably Senator Kennedy's youth and administrative inexperience. Nixon will be hurt in the campaign by his obligatory defense of Executive handling of the U-2 episode, but Khrushchev's attacks will make his nomination even more certain and help his electoral prospect...
...Serantes warned that "even within our own ranks there are some who persist in denying" the Communist threat. He thereby hinted at the division in the Cuban clergy over Castro. Among the religious orders, many Franciscans are refugees from Franco Spain and are generally still with Castro, while Jesuits tend to urge an anti-Communist crusade by the church...
Profit on Oldsters. Continental lost money on its original health-insurance plan (oldsters tend to wait until they have an ailment before taking out a policy). But as the number of policyholders in the over-65 age group increased, Continental made 33% profit last year. In the trial areas for the new "5,000 Reserve" policy, more than 7,000 oldsters eagerly signed up, and in Illinois 27.2% of the 65-Plus policyholders applied for the larger plan as well. With ever-increasing volume. Continental argues that it can turn insurance for the aged into a profitable line...