Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American students practice a "kissing promiscuity," tend to level off at heavy petting so that the girl retains her "technical virginity...
...treason trial of Aaron Burr. Called as a witness was Burr's secretary, a Mr. Willie, who was asked if he had understood a cipher message purportedly written by Burr. Willie refused to answer the question, citing the Fifth Amendment and insisting that an answer would tend to incriminate him. After two days of argument on the point, Justice Marshall ruled that Willie must answer. The great jurist's summary of the arguments on both sides throws light on contemporary debates over the meaning of the Amendment...
...principal economic argument against flood insurance is the nature of the risk. The most destructive (average yearly toll: some $420 million) and widespread calamities in the U.S., floods tend to haunt the same areas, e.g.. the Missouri and the Mississippi river basins, which had floods costing more than $1.5 billion from 1936 through 1951. Said one insurance executive: "Potentially, every insurance company could be bankrupted by one casualty...
...Isle of Wight. Last year he fell off, broke an ankle. He promptly ordered up a sedan chair and set out daily to tour the pubs like a Roman emperor, borne by two sturdy porters and accompanied by an umbrella-toting neighbor. Uffa's friends and professional competitors tend to agree with one Cowes oldtimer: "Uffa's a fine chap-a genius, none better-but, of course...
...Breathing Spell. Ideally, as business reaches peak production and employment, there is a leveling off period. With labor in increasingly short supply, businessmen must bid higher for more workers to make more goods; marginal costs increase; expansion becomes more difficult; prices tend to go up, thus gradually lessening demand. At first, the forecast was for such a breathing spell starting last month...