Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vital, more dramatic, even more sensitive movies than a Yale man. And in yearning for the benediction of the New York critics, the industry can never forget that most of the popcorn eaters who pay its bills, while being good, honest, patriotic, thrifty, well-meaning, healthy, 100% Americans, also tend to be tasteless slobs...
...spite of their exercise of the privilege under the Fifth Amendment, Professor Wendell H. Furry, Associate Professor Helen Deane Markham, and Leon J. Kamin (a Teaching Fellow). In their first appearances before Congressional Committees investigating Communist activities these three teachers had refused, on the ground that their answers would tend to incriminate them, to reply to questions regarding membership in the Communist Party...
...years of bitter exile on a desert island. At first, Crusoe rejoices in survival itself, then in the happy rescue of guns and supplies from his ship, wrecked on a nearby reef. With the ship's dog and cat, with a home abuilding and goats to tend, the castaway seems secure in his growing self-sufficiency. But fever comes, and he is finally racked by the even greater terrors of loneliness. Director Bunuel and Actor O'Herlihy are particularly fine in picturing the despair of a man alone. The suggestion of it comes in O'Herlihy...
Grade-consciousness is an inevitable product of an educational system that attempts to rate its students. Its effects are two-fold: while some people tend to work harder for marks, the very fact that they are being graded can also make them shy away from difficult courses. Among the most valuable features of the new Advanced Standing plan is a provision allowing scholarship holders to keep their stipends even if their grades in especially difficult courses fall below the required scholarship average, In drafting such a regulation, the Committee on Educational Policy hoped to eliminate the aspect of mark-consciousness...
Oklahomans, who tend toward he-men as their politicians, have watched with interest as 138-lb. Willie Murray, a onetime concert pianist, grew to be a heavyweight in state politics. A year younger than the State of Oklahoma (which admits to 46), she met Johnston Murray at a Democratic state convention, has been a close political adviser ever since...