Word: tend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from time immemorial, though it is true that the great collections have been amassed by acquisitors possessed of taste and love for the objects they buy. They have not generally been dis couraged by hard times. On the contrary, in recessions and depressions and inflations, the smart ones tend to liquidate stocks, bonds and real estate and thus have all the more cash to invest in other fields. Like art. Given the scar city of beautiful things and the insatiable demand for them, the sales will undoubtedly continue to take the bread and make the circuses. The Romans would love...
...hard to imagine a time when art will not be either. It has happened before, and can easily happen again. Those who pronounce on art's power as a hedge against inflation-as a commodity that rides the inflationary spiral, always ahead of money-tend not to mention that when runaway inflation lays waste an economy, as it did in Weimar Germany, the value of art collapses...
...basketball country, that's why. It is a state where few issues besides tobacco prices and Joe Califano's antismoking campaign can generate as much passionate controversy as basketball. To Tar Heels, especially those in obscure backwaters like Washington (pop. 9,000), young men like Dominique Wilkins tend to be regarded as state monuments. Dominique is 6 ft. 7 in. tall. He can hang in the air like a bat and do things with a basketball that Dr. James Naismith, who invented the game, never contemplated. Like slam it through the basket from all sorts of odd angles...
...must realize that they do not necessarily reap benefits when the U.S. loses. Moscow's experience has been that even some of its most faithful clients rebel in exasperation. As one top Administration expert puts it: "When the Soviets go into a country in the Middle East, they tend to muck around and not really achieve much improvement in the local way of life...
High schoolers who play in city and area leagues--invariably the source of the most skilled players--tend to migrate to the University of New Hampshire, Colby College and Northeastern, three of the toughest New England teams. Harvard takes on Northeastern tonight and will challenge Colby on February...