Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...housewife last week: "It's not a community that thinks much about what's going on outside." The members of Long Island's horsy set, who have watched aghast as the Levitt houses have marched toward their sacrosanct land of polo, privet and croquet, also tend to think of Levittowners as a class apart. One elderly dowager regularly takes her friends through Levittown in her chauffeur-driven limousine to show "what Levitt has done for the poor people." Levittown housewives encounter even more galling snobbery. Says one: "Whenever I tell people outside where I live...
Questionnaires, as any social relations man will hasten to say, tend to eliminate the subtleties of the issue involved. In order to give such subtleties some play the poll asked the legislators to comment on the problems brought up in the questions...
...concerned merely with formalities, was a deep and real conflict. As in most other recent instances when Britain was urged to participate in measures toward Western European integration, the Labor government was afraid that the Schuman Plan would interfere with its planned economy. In the past, British leaders have tended to deny or at least to evade the charge that the Labor Party's national socialism stood in the way of British cooperation with Europe. Last week some Labor spokesmen were more frank. Wrote Wilfred Fienburgh, the Labor Party's newly appointed research secretary: "A nation which...
When Americans grow gloomy about Southeast Asia (as well they may), they tend to look on the Philippine Republic as a bright spot. It is not. In Washington last week the intelligence appraisal was that the four-year-old republic appeared to be coming apart at the seams. Symptoms...
...fact of industrial life. Oil-burning diesel engines, which railroads were using in increasing numbers, were being operated with only one man, an engineer. A lot of firemen were going to be out of work. Robertson demanded that a fireman be put on every diesel (to tend no fires, but to make an occasional check in the engine room, keep an eye on gauges, and help the engineer look out the window). The railroads agreed...