Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told them that "our intention is not to antagonize or further antagonize these people but to bring the discussion onto common ground." The audience, numbering about 250, was reminded that "after the revolution of 1917, the U.S. was among the nations trying to destabilize the Marxist regime. We tend to forget that; they never will." Looking at his watch, one speaker said it seemed to him that "at times our governments get in the way of any possible negotiations." The audience grew angry at the inhospitality of its own State Department. At 8 p.m. the Soviets walked...
REVOLUTIONARY INNOVATIONS are always somewhat risky, and experimental films are no exception to the rule. While those that are successful tend to be very successful, those that are bad are usually unredeemable. Consequently, movie producers often approach such potentially controversial films cautiously, and moviegoers with a degree of skepticism...
...electrical shock administered to the genitals; el submarino or la banera (the submarine or the bath) is a treatment in which the victim's head is held under water almost to the point of suffocation. Says Grantham: "Torture does not occur simply because individual torturers are sadistic. They tend to be servants of a state carrying out a state policy...
...highway for $1.4 million. When they are not negotiating rights of way for roads, railroads, power lines, phone lines and gas lines, they can be found in Santa Fe or Albuquerque selling their jewelry or their property or Navajo blankets they have traded for. They also farm and tend cattle and celebrate the Roman Catholic Mass. When they have satisfied the demands of their own ancients, they dance for the good of humanity. One day in late January, while dancing for world peace and prosperity, a plane crossed their dusty plaza at the height of "about three telephone poles...
...farmer's cap and a sky-blue jacket with MR. PRESIDENT stitched over the heart. He and Block disagreed about American exports undercutting European Community farmers, but Mitterrand lightened the mood by driving a tractor and cuddling a piglet with black-and-white markings. Said he: "Our pigs tend to be bigger and pink...