Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the parent of the same sex. In normal development a young boy wants to be substantially like his father, and things go wrong when a boy rejects his father as an ideal. If the father is a dominating, bullying type, the boy is likely to prefer, and tend to identify himself with, his mother's yielding tenderness. If father is a henpecked weakling, the boy will reject him and resolve to avoid his mistake of falling into the clutches of a dominating or shrewish woman. The possible variations are innumerable...
...Editor Fox hide behind the Merriam-Webster dictionary on the ground that his answer might tend to incinerate him? William H. McMasters, Cambridge, Mass...
Jordan did not accept immediately. He had always loved teaching, and feared that an administrative post would leave him no time to teach. But almost simultaneously, he was made a professor of History at Harvard, with the agreement that he could teach and still have time to tend to Radcliffe. He accepted, wound up his Chicago affairs, and was inaugurated in October of 1943. He still teaches one course each year and gives a graduate seminar in the Tudor and Stuart periods of English history...
...Versions. There are two distinct Protestant versions of Christian hope. One of them is prevailingly held by European theologians, the other by those American theologians most actively associated with the World Council. The Europeans tend to be Biblically strict constructionist and socially pessimistic. They hold that things on this dreary earth will never really get better-despite all that Christians might like to do meanwhile-until Christ comes again to judge and sanctify...
...Americans tend to be loose constructionist and socially optimistic. They contend that God works partly through human history, and that Christians, through their active corporate witness, must help improve their world. The two points of view are not mutually exclusive, although sometimes it would seem...