Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seamy Side. The prevalent attitude is summed up by a Rochester critic who says that people will watch anything good, bad or indifferent." The result is a flood of amateur hours, quizzes, shopping talks, gabby interviews, ear-numbing commercials. Local shows tend to be pale reflections of network programs. In Bob Dale, Cleveland has a "skinny Arthur Godfrey." Washington features puppets, girls pretending to be elves, a disc jockey who silently mouths the words his records play. Memphis boasts an unhandy Handy Man named Peter Thomas who convulses viewers by spilling paste on his sponsor and gravy on his guests...
...Nectar is a dilute solution of various sugars. Bees put it in uncapped comb-cells, evaporate it to honey by fanning it with their wings. If it contains too much sucrose (cane sugar), which would make it tend to crystallize, the bees add an enzyme (invertase) from glands under their thorax. Thus the sucrose is turned into levulose and dextrose, which taste almost as sweet...
Morris noted that newspapermen were "only human" and tend to make human mistakes. "A responsible paper," he said, "must not play up or discredit stories or personalities. It should not try to sell through distorted headlines. It must present all points of view, and, above all, it must run straight news to inform the reader...
Center Jim Colt is the middleman of the second line, flanked by reconverted defenseman Ferd Horween and Hunt Collins. Jeff Coolidge and Tony Patton will fill the defense spots and Johnny Marshall will tend the nets...
...known in the trade as salons) offer everything from pedicures, manicures and facials to "body-contouring" (pummeling and steaming), supply false eyelashes, fingernails and "transformations" (false hair). Best & Co.'s store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue claims to have the biggest salon; there 60 men & women operators tend a bank of 100 dryers, beautify as many as 500 customers...