Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hands see sectarian differences among the newcomers. The Republican rookies tend to feel a greater loyalty to their party than do the Democrats because the Republican National Committee has more computer-collected campaign funds to distribute. But the younger Republicans also tend to be more rigidly ideological and militant on issues than their predecessors. Arizona Congressman John Rhodes gave up his post as Minority Leader two years ago, largely because he got fed up with the daily grind of trying to reason with unreasonable newcomers. By contrast, many recently elected Democrats ignored local party organizations, made it to Congress...
Misconceptions of evangelical philosophy tend to stem from a popular misunderstanding of evangelical methods and a notion that these methods are pushy, fear-inspiring, or reactionary. Graham calls the misconception "the ideas of brimstone and hell and so forth...
...from foxglove or blue maidens from dragonflies is relatively small. These and similar things fill the lengthy passages in early Lawrence or Hardy novels the passages which are the first ones skipped in the laziness of "leisure" reading. People at all conversant with the facts of the natural world tend not to display their knowledge, and we are far more likely to walk into a discussion about more conventionally sensational topics like politics or who is sleeping with whom than into one about whether the trout are rising or if it is a good year for mountain laurel. We know...
Wright does tend sometimes to toss over his shoulder the wealth of material he sees. In "Old Bud," he writes, "His unbelievable Adam's apple purpled and honed like the burl on the root of a white oak, and he sang his God Damns in despair." Now you see it, now you' don't--the white oak disappears, and the central character. Old Bud, who does has the potential to run wild and become larger than the poem, twists into another image. In cases like these, the prose poem proves even more confining for Wright than the traditional form; everything...
Marathoners, like all long distance runners, tend to be individualistic types, but our computer friend tells us that the elusive average male runner yesterday was 37 years old, five feet, nine inches tall, and a measly 148.7 pounds. And the average female weighed in at 114.6 pounds, measured five feet, three inches, and was 32 years...