Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forests and smoke-blue mountains, garlanded with the tea and coffee plantations that earn the colony's living. On the whole, they treat their blacks better than most white settlers in Africa. The tragedy of the whites is their failure to understand that the black Kikuyu tribesmen, who tend their crops, wash their dishes, nurse their babies and dig their graves when they die, are also equally fanatic land-lovers. The whites blandly reason: "If we're kind to the Kukes [short for Kikuyus], what more can they want? They've only been down from the trees...
When their findings were added up, most of the old familiar indicators pointed toward victory for Dwight Eisenhower. But one of the hardest political facts of all pointed steadily in the opposite direction. That fact: the U.S. voting record in the past four presidential elections. People tend to vote for the party they voted for last time. Based on that record, and on the fact that the analysts were almost unanimously wrong in 1948, almost every analysis was filled with caution. Cautions observed, a state-by-state study shows Ike ahead as of a week before election. It also provides...
...modern times, practitioners who set out to cure the ills of the mind tend to be looked up to as supermen who may not be denied or defied. As such, they have taken over many of the attributes of power once vested in priests and kings, shamans and devil doctors. How are they using their powers over the minds...
...other nations, and free world trade restored. Said he: "Two-way trade with foreign nations ... is the only really practical way to achieve peace on this earth. Two individuals or two communities or two nations who mutually profit from trading with each other do not tend to quarrel...
American pressure groups usually watch Presidential elections from the grandstand. Because they welcome a bipartisan membership, and because their lobbying must go on no matter which party is in power, they tend to be stingy with their endorsements. The only exception comes when, as in the case of labor unions this year, the group's issue is clearly the property of one party and not the other...