Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...archbishop, springs from the need to keep too-large families from putting an unfair burden on the mother, an unfair handicap on the children, or '"any unreasonable liability upon society." The trouble with too many Catholics, argued Dr. Fisher, is that they will not concede this duty, but "tend rather to suggest that family planning springs only from fear of overpopulation or prudential and selfish desires...
...Death Rows because Chessman wrote his way out of obscurity. Most of the men sentenced to death for criminal offenses in the Western world are inarticulate and without the influence that Caryl Chessman's talents as writer and self-taught advocate have brought to his cause. They tend to be, said Governor Brown in his message asking the legislature to abolish capital punishment, "the weak, the poor, the ignorant." But Chessman wrote a bestselling book, Cell 2455 Death Row.* Published in 1954, it has sold 500,000 copies in the U.S. alone, been translated into more than a dozen...
Among laymen, the arguments tend to be utilitarian. Psychology is nibbling at the fringes of the law to raise the question of whether any murderer can be classified as sane. But most debate turns on the question of whether capital punishment has a deterrent effect on crime. Many defenders of capital punishment tend to agree with James Pike, Protestant Episcopal bishop of California, that "the possibility of deterrence provides the only viable, moral justification" for the death penalty...
...Senators. He started playing goalie in ice-lot hockey only because the regular goalie once failed to show up for a game. His baseball still shows in his hockey: his first reflex is to catch the puck instead of blocking it with stick or pads as most other goalies tend...
...corporations such as General Motors, International Business Machines, and National Cash Register, which have full-scale international divisions and plants abroad, know how profitable trade can be. But smaller companies, which cannot invest millions to make millions, tend to shrug off export sales, regard them only as a dumping ground for surplus domestic production. When there is an export department, it often operates at the lowest management level...