Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Words tend toward a Coney Island Mirko. They can say that Mirko looks intently at you while he speaks, and that he smiles at just the right moment to put you at ease, and that he really has fun when he shows you how his mobile sculpture moves and makes sounds when he pushes...
...celebrated Captain James Cook, he has refused all concession to the popular taste for heightening drama and homogenizing history. As a consequence, the book may be read only by Blunden's fellow countrymen in Australia-a land so new and short on history that its people tend to brood protectively over what little they have-or by students interested in Cook's voyages. But this would be a pity. Dry and slow as the book often is, Blunden's novel sometimes glows with absorbing incident, rare, loving knowledge, and austere beauty...
...College, said. He compared the mailing of applications with election returns, in which results come in last from the rural and Southern areas of the country. He said that the suburban and prep school students are counseled better than applicants from lower income groups so that the former would tend to send in applications earlier. He added that the growth of suburbia contributes to the rise in applications...
...reason for this is that Negroes constitute an extremely small minority within most denominations: despite its progressive policies on race, the 2,000,000-member United Church is only 2% black. Another problem, particularly for those churches which emphasize lay authority, is that the majority of white congregations still tend to be reluctant to accept a black minister in the pulpit, even when a well-qualified one is available. As a result, many Negro clergymen are turning away from the goal of parish-level integration and are focusing their attention on the revitalization of all-black congregations...
...feeling that Black Power advocates would tend to reject anything that appears to be a creation of whites...