Word: tend
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Although Schwartzwalder does tend to mention unbalanced lines, eight-man blocking fronts and halfback option passes, most of his stories are about ball carriers, a sequence of unbelievable runners, all of them wearing No. 44. "Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, Floyd Little," he says with a snap in his voice, though his own number now is 78. "They never knew what they did. They just did it. Perfect instincts. Larry Csonka's instinct was to drop his shoulder and run over you. That worked too." Because Csonka started as a lineman, he never wore 44. Joe Morris was offered the number...
Kwitny's research is formidable--so formidable, in fact that details of specific incidents tend to detract from his central purpose. While The Crimes of Patriots succeeds as an account of a series of interesting events, the events are not well enough connected to form a broad indictment of the CIA. The sometimes deadening effect of detail is evident when Kwitny recounts the questioning of Geort...
Though Long and Ivey cannot be blamed for the mediocrity of the script, both actresses tend to overcompensate for its weaknesses, making things worse Fearing that these lines would not be funny in themselves, Long and Ivey try to play up these jokes physically...
...much fundamental change would these new political institutions involve? Focusing on process rather than result, Huntington dodged the issue; but he acknowledged that Geisel's "decompression" in the mid-'70s did not lead to real democratization in Brazil (p. 16). Brazilians, incidentally, tend to be harsher on Geisel, under whom the Brazilian military continued its dictatorial control behind a thin facade of indirect elections...
...Huntington is no dreamer. Back in 1981, hewarned that "consociational arrangements tend tobreak down when increasing social mobilizationundermines the authority of the leaders whonegotiated the arrangement and new, youngerleaders appear." (15) Such mobilization wouldappear to have already occurred in South Africa,although not precisely along the communal linesHuntington expected. Today, there is widespreadopposition to the government, and broad oppositionto any reforms imposed either by government or byassorted elites. Despite massive repression,people of all races continue to organizeresistance to apartheid; white liberals and Blacksstill call for one-person, one-vote in a unitarySouth Africa. If the preconditions forconsociational solutions include...