Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...setting aside a few rooms in each House for organizations, the University could eliminate the dangers of bureaucratic centralization, and, at the same time, tend to make Houses the focus of undergraduate activity. Instead of going from Lowell House to the Activities Center, the student would remain in his own House or travel to one of the neighboring Houses...
...ways as Dwight David Eisenhower. Yet, strangely, it is the sum total of Dwight Eisenhower's 66 years that is still news in election year 1956, for in his role of President-Candidate he is so completely absorbed and absorbing that the thousands who see and cheer him tend to forget that he ever really played any other...
...first Aida at La Scala in 1950, she startled the crowd by stalking about like a hungry leopard instead of taking the usual stately stance for her Act III duet. In the death scene of Fedora, in which sopranos tend to expire stiffly on a divan, Callas staggers from it, sags to her knees, drags herself up, crawls towards her lover's room, collapses again before she finally rolls down and dies. In Norma she has cried real tears. Operagoers. long reconciled to the classic, three-gesture range of other prima donnas, are astounded and delighted...
...other hand," Stouffer said, "the Medical School is not represented at all, and if the medical students tend to be Republican, one bias might offset the other...
Karpovitch said that the uprisings might tend to reverse the recent liberalization of Soviet internal policy, but he would not predict whether the unrest might seriously weaken the power of the current Soviet leaders...