Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...puts more emphasis on poultry and less importance on red meat, sugar and fatty foods. Auto repairs are diminished too, partly because vehicles tend to last longer. But spending on entertainment, notably cable television and restaurant meals, has risen. Health care is getting less emphasis than a decade ago, which is not to say prices have fallen but only that more costs are covered by insurance...
...alternative cinema type things rent very well with the college-age crowd. They tend to go for foreign films," he says...
...purpose of an answering machine--no matter how amusing--is still to take messages. Good messages tend to elicit responses from callers, even those who have dialed the wrong number, say students. "It's a good feeling" when one of the messages says "nice message but wrong number," Yakir Siegal's '89 says...
Such jokes -- delivered, as all her slings are, with a great guileless smile -- fulfill the tradition of the defiant female wit, alive with innuendo, that stretches from the Wife of Bath to Belle Barth. They also tend to obscure Midler's unique talent. Yes, she coos bedroom ballads like Long John Blues; sure, her charts tease five decades of popular music with the wink of parody. But her laser-precise technique is no counterfeit of feeling. It is the art of the Method singer, who approaches a song as an actor does his text: finding the heft of a melodic...
Hardworking and attentive, Anthea Williams, 37, rises early every weekday morning to tend to the spiritual needs of the parishioners of Christ Church in Maidstone, a small town in southeast England. She baptizes babies, conducts funerals, comforts the sick in their homes and in hospital beds, and leads her congregation in prayer in the small, modern brick church. But as a woman, she is forbidden to celebrate the rite of Holy Communion for her flock of 40 parishioners. That central act of worship can be performed only by male clerics in the Church of England, who occasionally neglect even...