Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bureau of Internal Revenue's official spokesman before congressional committees, he had always been a genial, cooperative witness. Not so this time. He appeared under protest, dourly complained of "slanderous implications" in the committee's evidence, then refused to testify further, "on the ground that it might tend to incriminate me." After an hour, the committee gave up; Bolich went back to his home in Brooklyn, where a grand jury has also been asking him some questions...
...this age of anxiety and frustration, there is an increase in the number of those who, facing or fearing ill health, are in urgent need of sympathetic and understanding medical advice." Are they likely to get it? "Unfortunately, many of the changes that are taking place in ... medical practice tend to weaken rather than strengthen the traditional tie between the doctor and his patient...
...general portrait of the delinquent as compared to the non-delinquent reveals to us the important distinguishing traits. As a group, the Glueck study shows that delinquents tend to be mesomorphic, in constitution (solid, closely knit and muscular). In temperament they are more energetic, impulsive, extroverted, aggressive and destructive than the non-delinquents. In respect to attitude they are generally more hostile, suspicious, stubborn, unconventional, and adventurous. In intellectual life they tend to the direct and concrete rather than abstract expression and are less methodical than non-delinquents. In regard to background they are products of homes of little understanding...
...Generous Americans. So far the American invasion numbers 4,000 construction workers and 3,000 blue-uniformed airmen. Thirty-ton earth loaders, compactors and asphalt layers are changing the landscape, within sight of Arab and Berber shepherds who tend their flocks and think their own thoughts. The French administration welcomes the advent of U.S. capital and enterprise, but insists on keeping local wages down to check inflation. Many French bureaucrats, businessmen, speculators and colons (plantation owners) grumble that the generous, kindly Americans will spoil the inhabitants...
Even by Eastern prep-school standards, Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Mass. tends to be conservative; its informal art classes tend to be the same. But one day last month, Freshman Renny Drew, 14, decided to try something different. The art teacher had told the boys to go right ahead and paint whatever they wished. Renny's inspiration led him to develop this technique...