Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...giggle and chatter loudly throughout the course of an hour lecture. Perhaps it is the impersonal nature of classes and large dining hall-in which we seek out our friends and eye strangers skeptically--that condones or reinforces such shabby behavior. Perhaps the attitude of Harvard students, who tend to guard their own interest above others, accounts for such superfluous incidents of rudeness. Many it's peer pressure on a grand scale: since everyone else yucks it up in the Lamont stacks...
They cannot, according to the Vatican. Officials in Rome tend to regard the American women's criticisms as a peculiarity of U.S. society; they hear relatively few such complaints from the rest of the world. The church's new code of canon law, which took effect in December of 1983, spells out the rules for all orders, down to such details as living in "their own religious house" rather than an apartment and wearing some kind of religious clothing "as a sign of their consecration." The constitutions of all 300-odd U.S. orders of sisters must conform...
...with liver function (they are now advertised as a laxative). And we now know that Lydia Pinkham's soothing syrup, once a favorite remedy for women's ills of all sorts, was 20% alcohol. The FDA argues, as do most doctors, that ineffective medications can be harmful because they tend to prevent a patient from seeking effective treatment. It is on that ground that the agency has fought against letting cancer victims be treated with apparently worthless products like Laetrile, even when the patients want them and claim to feel improvement. But ) baldness? Do furtive applications of Yuppiegoo really prevent...
...impossible. The Man of La Mancha is one of his heroes; so are Walter Mitty and the would-be outfielder in Damn Yankees. In more religious times, mysterious alterations of the usual suggested divine intervention, or at least the help of a saint, but both church leaders and philosophers tend to be skeptical about these things. Proofs are demanded, testimonies weighed. Still, the streets of Lourdes are lined with stores selling rows and rows of bottled water from the grotto, and the grotto itself bristles with the crutches discarded by those who walked away. How would the FDA rule...
...some reason. When she called her home, Olga came running, fell, skinned her knee and cried. I picked her up to comfort her. But her mother started smacking her on the bottom for falling down." Olga's upbringing was almost a case study of how some parents tend to reenact with their own offspring what they suffered as children. Svetlana's mother, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, whom Stalin married in 1919, had been a harsh disciplinarian. When Svetlana damaged a tablecloth with scissors, her mother hit her repeatedly on the hands. Nadezhda committed suicide when Svetlana was six, leaving her daughter...