Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place . . . Price-fixing has always failed, from Diocletian* to Truman . . ." Free prices "provide the best method of stimulating production of the things that are really needed, and of restricting consumption of the things that are in short supply." To Leffingwell, frozen wages are no better than frozen prices: they "tend to retard the movement of men from nonessential to essential jobs ... I do not believe in forced labor . . . and that is what wage-fixing means...
...words like "insurrection" and "rebels" is justified only by the lack of more appropriate ones, but your readers must be warned of their inadequacy to convey a truly accurate picture of what took place. They tend to give the impression that there was a large popular movement, when in point of fact the Nationalists failed to attract any popular support whatsoever...
...result of the elections will be to convince Republicans that McCarthyism pays off," Schlesinger added. "This will inflame the worst elements of the party--others will tend to feel that McCarthy was right...
...self-supporting publication, the Bulletin does tend to follow the University on most issues, but last spring it showed an instance of its independence when it bitterly opposed the idea of a new Varsity Club...
...Furth based their argument on the promise that two organizations, one Communist and one non-Communists, would tend to magnify and increase those differences already existing. Holy Cross argued that a new organization replacing the United Nations would be able to maintain peace where the U.N. has failed...