Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wide margin of victory highlighted a trend in the Crimson's non-league schedule: the icewomen tend to be either blown out or to do the blowing out themselves...
...League games tend to be really tight," Harvard Coach John Dooley said. "It's a wonderful league--it's so evenly balanced it's terrific...
...alone, especially elderly blacks, the very old and elderly women. Their financial distress, though, is not so much a function of aging as it is of education, race and their past employment, factors the council found "lead to low income at all ages." Older women are particularly vulnerable. They tend to stay single after a divorce or death, lowering household income. Widowed or divorced men, in contrast, remarry at seven times the rate of women...
Proprieties tend to wilt in the pervasive heat. In Lord Short Shoe Wants the Monkey, a rising calypso singer strikes a deal at a Barbados nightclub with a white man who owns a trained monkey; the performer gets the onstage use of the animal, and the owner gets a night with a stunning black woman in the singer's entourage. Overhearing this transaction, an American visitor solemnly interrupts: "Gentlemen, forgive me. You cannot trade a woman for a monkey...
West German officials do not underestimate the new generation of terrorists, but they tend to regard them as less formidable than their predecessors. They put the number of active R.A.F. commandos at no more than 25. Despite grandiose plans to attack NATO installations, so far the terrorists have struck more often at unprotected civilian businesses or diplomatic sites. Says a West German security specialist: "The current campaign has a momentum of its own. The risk to innocent bystanders is far greater than before. The new terror is less a protest than a sickness. There are twisted minds in every generation...