Word: tending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only official U.S. comment came from Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson, who had hoped to get sugar from Java. Now, in the understatement of the week, he explained: "Trying to get it out would not tend to promote peace...
West Pubnico has prospered during the war. In season the hardy Pubniconian men go after lobster, herring, mackerel and tuna. Winters they repair their nets, tend their cows and chickens, live off their home-grown vegetables and the fish they salted away, and generally take life easy in their tidy, white-frame homes which are clustered about Father Leblanc's St. Peter's Church...
...Potsdam, President Harry S. Truman proposed international control of Europe's waterways. The plan fits the framework of U.S. policy: placing waterways under an international regime would tend to unify Europe's economy and to break down national barriers to trade...
...Shanghai's famed Bund would start a new life. Centers of industry and trade-some of them, like Shanghai's sprawling textile factories, relatively undamaged by war-would soon be at work. Everywhere outside the cities the largest number of self-respecting farmers in the world would tend their rice paddies, grain fields and vegetable plots, free at last from the alien taskmaster...
...secrets are perishable. The atomic bomb greatly widened the enormous gap between the top powers and the rest of the nations. In a few years it might change the world's political picture again-and far more drastically. In the long run, this new weapon might tend to place nations on the same level of power, just as gunpowder had leveled feudal classes...