Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accuser, Montuoro, has obvious credibility problems. He has been convicted of possession of heroin and firearms. He has worked near explosives on tunnel-digging jobs for so long that he does not hear well. But jurors tend to believe him. He was a principal Government witness when Sanzo was convicted last June of income tax evasion for failing to report bribes received from another construction company. Claims one federal prosecutor about Montuoro: "What he says turns out to be true...
...continuous review. Algebra, he points out, is a skill, and like any other, it must be learned thoroughly. In 1979 Saxon came to New York City and tried to sell his idea for an Algebra I text. The conservative world of high school textbook publishers, where new books often tend to be virtual clones of the most successful standard text, abruptly turned him away...
...backyard farmers cause to revel in vividly rendered pears, potatoes and peas. Tendrils of painstakingly crafted calligraphy-herbal aphorisms from Solomon to Poet John Clare-curl through tiny landscapes. There are also illustrated guides to flowers, fragrances and remedies offered by the bewhiskered farmers and thick-waisted matrons who tend these jewel-like plots. As for the predatory animals, like a good gardener, Midda has banished them from the greenery...
Dentists are most cautious about the new laminate veneers. Says Dr. Cornells Pameijer of Boston University: "I don't use it. It gives the tooth a dead look." Another concern, says Dan Nathanson of Tufts dental school in Boston, is that the shields tend to fall off: "If you have six teeth with plastic veneers, there's a good chance you'll lose one within a year...
BLOODSUCKERS FROM FRANCE "If there's anything in the world I hate, it's leeches-filthy little devils!" Humphrey Bogart growled in The African Queen. He had just climbed out of a river, covered with the little suckers. Doctors tend to be less squeamish. But even for them leeches have long been associated with archaic medical practices, like bloodletting to cure everything from gout to mental illness. Lately, however, the unlovable little creatures have been having a minor revival. At New York's Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center doctors are using them effectively to help save reattached...