Word: tend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NOTEBOOK: First the quarterbacks, now the goalies. Last season's starter Peter Walsh decided to take a year off, and an Amherst forward stepped on Bood's leg. Blood will require stitches to close the gash, and will miss this weekend's action...Eddie Weinfurtner and Bennie Erulkar will tend the twines...The booters' record now stands at 1-2-1 (0-1 in the Ivies)...Their next game is Friday night under the lights and on astroturf at Cornell...URI visits the Business School field next Wednesday--hopefully, in slightly warmer weather...
...million people saw the Pope in person, including more than a million and a quarter at the Mass he celebrated before a 200-ft. steel cross in Dublin's Phoenix Park. Addressing the largest gathering in Irish history, John Paul warned that "prosperity and affluence" tend to make people "more selfish in their demands...
...touched off the revolution that led to the creation of the present republic. Those episodes have fostered a reflexive suspicion about yanqui motives that lingers to this day. Says a State Department official: "Mexicans are so sensitized by the past that it colors any overture from the U.S. They tend to see in normal conflicts much more sinster aspects than are really there...
McKay himself is a rich Bostonian of refined sensibility, great kindness and few brains. Because bees tend to start new swarms if the old queen is removed, and can do so up to four times a season, McKay figures he can parlay the ten hives he is taking to Kansas into 10,240 hives in five years. Each hive can "cheerfully" produce 80 to 100 lbs. of honey a year. This he will ship east in summer for sale. The music boxes will take up the trading slack in winter...
...negotiations, the Soviets tend to be blunt, the Chinese insinuating. The Soviets insist on their prerogatives as a great power. The Chinese establish a claim on the basis of universal principles and a demonstration of self-confidence that attempts to make the issue of power seem irrelevant. The Soviets, with all their stormy and occasionally duplicitous behavior, leave an impression of extraordinary psychological insecurity. The Chinese convey an aura of imperviousness to pressure; indeed, they pre-empt pressure by implying that issues of principle are beyond discussion. Chinese diplomats, at least in their encounters with us, proved meticulously reliable. They...