Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come to expect something better of the U.S. "Recourse to violence as a form of solving differences is one of the philosophic norms which the Yankees have spread with greatest efficacy throughout the world," lectured Barcelona's El Noticiero Universal, overlooking Spain's own sanguinary history. Foreign critics also tend to forget that there are many different forms of violence. A police state, which operates on the threat of violence by the government against its own citizens, can more easily maintain order and prevent crime that a free society. Soviet Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko chose to ignore that fact when...
Botched Again. Law-enforcement men working on the case tend to discount such theories. A senior Justice Department lawyer is conducting an undercover search for leads to a plot among Memphis underworldlings, but local police and FBI agents-who first hunted the suspect as a member of a conspiracy-are working on the assumption that Ray, a known racist and always a loner in prison, killed alone...
Mary Sirhan, who has worked in a church nursery for the past nine years, lives with her sons in an old white frame house. The neighbors in the ethnically mixed, lower-middle-class Pasadena neighborhood describe Sol as "nice, thoughtful, helpful." He liked to talk about books and tend the garden; he played Chinese checkers with a couple of elderly neighbors, one of them a Jewish lady. Sol was no swinger, was rarely seen with girls. His brothers told police that Sol liked to hoard his money?perhaps explaining the $409 he had on him despite his being unemployed recently...
Even in the best of times, nations tend to view one another in caricature and stereotype. Riots, assassinations and Viet Nam have all contributed, justly or unjustly, to an image of an increasingly violent U.S. in the eyes of much of the world. In the first few hours after the shooting of Robert Kennedy, the outpouring of shock and sorrow from the public figures and press of the world expressed considerably more than the simple hope for Kennedy's survival. Much of it consisted of messages addressed to the American people and American society that said, in effect...
...Some men are just naturally good committee members--I mean that in a serious sense," Ford says. These men tend to be on many committees, more than they themselves may prefer...