Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold war isn't fun," said Alf Hall. He pestered British officialdom with requests that he be reposted to Moscow, begged them to pressure the Russians to grant Clara's visa. This militancy was not appreciated by the Foreign Office, which believes its juniors should tend to their tasks and keep out of trouble. "For blotting my copybook," as he put it, Hall was transferred to the Commonwealth Relations Office. Later, he was posted to Ottawa as assistant to Novelist Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat in the Commonwealth press office. He kept up the prodding. Finally the British...
Pathos & Dignity. When the movie princess escapes, on impulse, from dull routine and is found, drunk on a sedative, by Reporter Gregory Peck on a bench in a Roman park, Audrey makes her helplessness absolutely winning by her quiet assumption that Peck will tend to her needs just as her personal maid might. "I've never been alone with a man before," she says severely a bit later in Peck's apartment, "even with my dress on," and her trusting innocence becomes a sure guarantee of safety. Audrey Hepburn's princess seems never to forget her exalted...
When fall comes, the students will go right on with such chores. Though they will study the usual prep-school courses and get their share of skiing, riding and playing, they will also plant, sew, dig irrigation ditches, scrub floors, haul wood, tend horses, clear paths, pound nails, rake leaves, paint walls, and do any other manual labor the Holdens can think...
Public speakers are often unhappy about the way newspapers report their talks. They complain that the papers tend to play up one striking headline point or phrase, play down or even ignore the main theme. The usual answer of newsmen is that speakers themselves don't know what is news, often bury the noteworthy parts. But last week a public speaker who is also an able editor took issue, in a letter to the New York Times, with the way the paper had reported two recent talks, and thereby read newsmen a lesson on their editorial responsibilities...
Readers of Kip's crackling Washington Letter remember the information he passes along, tend to forget the tips and predictions that do not pan out. He consciously styles the letters to make readers feel that they are on a private pipeline to the best-informed Government sources ("Officials aren't worried about deflation, think they can stop it . . ."). Kiplinger writes every line of the Washington Letter himself, sometimes rewrites an item a dozen times to produce what he calls "sweep lines," i.e., sentences that have a single thought to a line, and that end with a punctuation mark...