Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barred Adam Clayton Powell from membership, while Dodd retains both his seat and his seniority.*The Powell case prompted creation of a House ethics committee, which is also supposed to formulate a code of conduct. Mansfield thinks that "the Senate must go ahead on its own. Let the House tend to its own business." Republican Leader Everett Dirksen believes a common document should cover both Houses...
...lives than the great majority of their fellow citizens. This, despite their blatant disregard for most of society's accepted mores and many of its laws-most notably those prohibiting the use of drugs-helps explain why so many people in authority, from cops to judges to ministers, tend to treat them gently and with a measure of respect. In the end it may be that the hippies have not so much dropped out of American society as given it something to think about...
...goal of university publishing, explains Stanford University Press Director Leon Seltzer, is not to seek out the surefire seller but to find the book that will "add a dimension to man's understanding of himself." Most university presses thus tend to reflect the strengths of their university. Yet each must also look beyond its own campus: scholars rate a university press self-centered if more than a third of its books are written by its own faculty...
According to Miller, who takes it all quite seriously, a dog can be afflicted with an "anxiety syndrome," a "jealousy syndrome," the "secretary syndrome," "dominance frustration," "barrier frustration," or even "psychosexual misorientation." And that's bad, because dogs burdened with those neuroses tend to destroy bedroom slippers, jump on guests, bite mailmen, wet on carpets, bark early in the morning and stop wagging their tails...
...will conjure up images of effortless pick-ups by day--all those sweet little girls who come to Cambridge to get a Harvard man of their very own--and endless parties by night in the enclaves -- Putnam Square, Harvard Street, Porter Square--where Harvard and Radcliffe students tend to cluster. Like all such legends, some of the Cambridge summer-time stories are true and some are not--or, more accurately, they are more true for some than for others...