Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ministers of top U.S. churches are not always outstanding preachers. Many of them also tend to put too much emphasis on service and too little on God's Word...
...holiday." And the Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph-Register editorialized: "Unfortunately, in too many instances the [Christmas] parties serve only to show that both the boss and his office staff can be somewhat less than human when they let down their hair. Instead of raising office morale, such parties tend to lower office morals...
...Catholicism in the U.S., Father Jean Danielou, S.J., contends that American Catholics are too separatist. "They tend to constitute a self-sufficing community, and as a result, to live apart within the nation . . . American Catholic universities are institutions of great value . . . But apart from this, it is essential that Catholicism should also be represented in non-Catholic universities. And this, which appears to be normal in France, appears to be revolutionary in the U.S.A...
...oldtime pitchman employs the "high pitch" and is usually "a screamer, a semi-comedian and comparatively illiterate," says Kaye. On television, the "low pitch" is preferred: "Our people tend to be on the quiet side; they're subtle, more confidential, and much more personal." In evidence, Kaye points to his top TV pitchman, William "Hoppy" Haupt, a college graduate (Loyola of Los Angeles) and a former teacher at Los Angeles' Immaculate Heart College Labor School. Says Kaye admiringly: "Hoppy does everything except gadgets. He's extraordinary at selling finer quality merchandise...
...have taken part in, observed, listened to, heard about, and, occasionally, unsuccessfully tried to escape from, countless discussions about it. These discussions almost invariably turned on one or both of the following points, which seem to me to have nothing at all to do with the issue, and which tend to obfuscate, confuse, and even to bypass that issue...