Word: tending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Next biggest group are the severely neurotic (about 2,500,000)-who are often dynamic, successful men & women. The neurotic may even be pretty good life-insurance risks, unless they are prone to hypertension or stomach ulcers. Constantly worrying (presumably about their insurance premiums, among other things), they tend to "live long and unhappily...
...Herbert Pocket (Alec Guinness),and learns, instead, to be a snob. As he helps his old criminal friend to escape arrest and rescues Miss Havisham's ward, the beautiful Estella (Valerie Hobson), from a psychological trap, the noble and weaker sides of Pip's nature so con-.tend that he emerges a true...
...large proportion of applicants typically express an interest in the over-popular fields of journalism, publishing, personnel work, advertising, and the "export-import business." This aggravates the placement problem, for the majority of job offerings tend more toward scientific pursuits. Insurance and merchandising also offer many good opportunities...
American economy will be under careful actually in the future as it is compared with other systems. "This will tend to keep us on our foes," Slichter said...
...stronger U.S. policy had helped the Foreign Ministers Conference, too. The Moscow sessions were still bumping along (see below), but the old tension was gone. Everyone knew that the U.S. would not make major concessions which would tend to equalize Soviet and U.S. strength-because in such equalization lay the danger...