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Word: tending (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month, members of the Swiss Socialist Party became disturbed over the fact that the last resting place of the great Karl Marx was thus ignored. They sent a delegation to Dr. Longuet in Paris offering to tend and beautify the London grave. The doctor, onetime Socialist who turned Communist in 1939, indignantly refused. "As long as I live," cried Longuet last week, "I will not permit any anti-Marxists to meddle with the grave. The Socialists have no business at my grandfather's grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Weeds | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...Sealtest is a co-sponsor), Chicago-born Bachelor Tillstrom is no more able than his fans to explain exactly why his show clicks. "I don't try to be a satirist, because I am not a brilliant wit like Fred Allen,"* he says. "In fact, I think I tend a little to sadness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: You've Got to Believe | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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