Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orleans, which does not pay jurors anything, is not typical, the juror in federal courts gets only $20 a day. In most state courts he may expect to earn less. Some companies continue to pay all or part of a man's salary while he serves, but they tend to get balky when the trial is protracted. In Millbury, Mass., the John Bath toolmaking company once insisted that an employee on jury duty report to work for an hour and three-quarters each morning before the court convened. A judge fined the company $3,000 and its vice president...
...cranial sutures (the spaces between the bones that make up the skull) are wide at birth and gradually narrow over the years. By the end of childhood the sutures close. But when a stunted child is being treated for deprivation dwarfism-and grows rapidly as a result-the sutures tend to widen instead. Usually, this is an ominous sign of rising fluid pressure within the skull, perhaps from a brain tumor...
Such complaints are not easy to deal with, and often they tend to overshadow more mundane concerns that may be even more important to students. A coed lunch hour? A new cafeteria menu? Trunks for boys too modest to swim naked in the pool? Students at Bushwick High School in Brooklyn-a ghetto school suffering from all the usual sociological ills-demanded such reforms recently and got them, as the New York Times reported last week. In fact, Dr. Leonard Gelber, the principal, credits much of the present calm at Bushwick to a "human relations" committee of students, teachers...
Putting Shakespeare on film can be troublesome because the playwright's ringing verbal resonances tend to lose some of their force in a medium that emphasizes sight over sound. Putting a Shakespeare film on television is doubly troublesome, for the small screen reduces the principals to tiny figures who are all but lost in panoramic scenes. Despite the difficulties, England's Royal Shakespeare Company, under Director Peter Hall, has turned A Midsummer Night's Dream into a richly textured color film that comes across as TV at its best. Millions of Americans will have a chance...
...Williams' performances testifies to the tremendous advantage of the home court in squash. The temperatures vary considerably from court to court, and to a large extent dictate the style of play. In a hot court the ball bounces higher; thus drop shots are less effective and the points tend to be longer. With Harvard playing away matches at Navy, Penn, and Princeton, coach Jack Barnaby has been drilling the team on long points with emphasis on stamina rather than finesse...