Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although a spokesman for the Alumni Office said that most of the guests tend to live nearby because most others prefer to wait for the regular reunions...
...kills more of its users, but it acquired a uniquely dark stigma partly because of the backward quality of the opiate high: blissfully heedless, droopy, tuned out, lazy beyond words. Stimulant cocaine, however, is far more in tune with the swaggering mood of a country of nonstop gogetters. Users tend to have the perfect illusion, for 20 or 30 minutes, that they are smarter, sexier and more competent, radiant, vigilant, masterful, better: it promotes a kind of fascism of the self. (Indeed, Hermann Goring, a morphine user, is rumored to have used cocaine as well...
According to Psychiatrist Resnick's clinical studies of 430 users, compulsive cokeheads tend to be professionally successful. Yet beneath a bouncy, worldly facade, says Resnick, the typical abuser is a certifiable narcissist who has "an undeveloped sense of identity and a profound despair," and "an inability to express ... intense rage toward one or both parents." Rob, 26, a Connecticut native who has sold various drugs for a decade, including cocaine, has his own, hard-boiled theory of addicts. "They're the same kind of people who don't have self-control in other parts of their life," he says...
...thing about this whole business," she begins, "is that I can't even date." Later the saline level rises. When Mark contritely bursts into tears, Rachel concludes, "It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their...
Other means of dissent can get a point across adequately-listen before or after a presentation, leaflets, silent protest with posters letters to newspapers. Granted, such tactics do not have the immediately discernible, effect of radical disruptions. But they also lack their drawbacks: and, in the long run, they tend to prove more successful...