Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsmen do, was baffled by all the excitement over his "breach of security." Said he: "All the Air Force has to do is to ignore our drawing. They're the only ones who can say whether it was correct or not. By making a fuss, they tend to give the impression that we were right...
Churchmen, like businessmen and bees, tend to swarm in the late spring. Last week the denominational convention season was well under way, and elections, budgets and resolutions filled...
Filling the apartments with Faculty members more senior--assistant and associate professors--would also be difficult. For even academics tend to multiply, and as families bulge, so does the rent. Also, with growing children, a house with a lawn seems infinitely more attractive than a confined, though plush, apartment...
Youngsters start in factories-at half pay-at the age of 14 and tend to become industrial D.P.s. As the head of a young workers' center described them: "Youth at work, in effect, is not in school, not in the family, not in the unions, not in youth movements, not in political parties. It doesn't vote; it doesn't pay taxes. It goes to the movies three times a week, plays the pinball machines in cafés, flits through the dance halls, attends boxing and football matches and jaywalks." STRUGGLE FOR A ROOF...
Children deprived of love tend to become vitally, morally, and socially defective...