Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble is, the anecdotes are only too characteristic, but of doubtful veracity. Distant acquaintances tend to recall incidents which may not have happened at all, or may have happened to someone other than Roosevelt. And two or more memories, clouded with the passing years, often reconstruct the same events in differing form...
...volunteered that someone was encouraging closer faculty-student relationships. "Tutors are kind of busy for that," she said, shrugging: "they tend to fraternize with their own kind anyway." I nodded...
...conclusion: the Russians tend to concentrate money and manpower on a few programs in applied science (e.g., Sputniks) that promise spectacular results and will be valuable as propaganda. Speaking for his own field only, he thinks they are behind the U.S. in basic, theoretical physics, the kind of work that produces practical results years from now. Their nuclear physics labs are not as good as U.S. labs and lack the fancier kinds of equipment...
...published last year in the U.S., Troyat tenderly recounted the provincial courtship of Amelie Aubernat and Pierre Mazalaigue in the early 1900s. As this sequel opens, it is 1915. Pierre is a World War I infantry corporal at the front, while Amelie is struggling to run their Paris cafe, tend her infant daughter, and discipline her young brother, Dennis, who ricochets from the arms of a blowzy cashier to the inviting lingerie of a young laundress...
...English, as suggested in this very English verse by Sir Walter Raleigh, late professor of English literature at Oxford, live very close to their neighbors, and thus tend to have a depressingly low view of their character, morals and appearance. Angus Wilson, England's cleverest postwar storyteller, succeeds like a gifted gossip in holding the ear of an audience which may deplore the scandalmonger but is entranced by his narrative...