Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WANG is about 25 years old, with less than five years of schooling behind him. Back home in Manchuria he was a farmer, and all he wants today is to go back to the fields where he left his wife and baby daughter to tend the millet crop. He volunteered for the army in February 1950-to spare his family social disgrace in his village-but he never took to army life. He discussed his dislike of fighting with other soldiers who agreed, but he had to be careful not to talk to the wrong soldiers, i.e., dedicated members...
...leaving Harvard at 38, having spent half his life her. Some people think the faculty made a mistake. Others point to factors that might have influenced the appointment board: his late publication his taste for working alone, his non-competitive attitude toward advancement. In particular, some professional scholars tend to feel uncasy about the man with a varsity of interests, the outstanding amateur in so many field: Can he be taken seriously! One professor, not an economist, has summed up an attitude he may not share himself: "It's all very well to be brilliant at everything...
Leontieff's reaction was typical. He stated that "in an inflationary period anything which will tend to reduce prices to consumers will be healthy...
Using recent graduates of the College, cutting down the size of the board of advisers, and keeping closer check on the work of each adviser are recommended to produce better advisers. All this would tend to eliminate the poorer men who, according to he report, which is based on interviews and a recent poll, cause most of the dissatisfaction...
ALONG the marshy banks of Lake Scutari on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, red-kerchiefed shepherdesses tend their flocks, and on the lake, fishermen in shallow wooden canoes spear fish with steel-tipped lances. Across the lake it is possible to see the outlines of the Albanian city of Scutari (pop. 29,000). That is just about the only view an outsider can get of Albania today, but from the stories that drift across the frontier, it is possible to piece together a more accurate picture. Albania is the only satellite state which is not joined geographically to the Soviet family...