Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors and their scientific training are partly to blame, Dr. Menninger suggests: "We doctors are so schooled against permitting ourselves to believe the intangible or impalpable or indefinite that we tend to discount the element of hope, its reviving effect as well as its survival function." In psychiatry especially, he argues, there used to be an "impression that 'our patients never get well.' " In fact, says Dr. Menninger, the best thing that psychiatrists can do for their patients is to "light for them a candle of hope to show them possibilities that may become sound expectations...
...dining halls," he wrote in 1910. "This... would give far greater opportunity for men from different schools and from different parts of the country to mix together and find their natural affinities unfettered by the associations of early education, of locality and of wealth; and above all it would tend to make the college more truly national in spirit...
...garment industry's Central Clothing Institute, "because they are tailored for Apollo. Our designers conceive of the customer in just two dimensions-height and chest width-and assume that for their other measurements all their customers will be proportioned exactly as Apollo." But far from being Apollos, Russians tend to be short and broad, and if anything getting broader. Moscow University's anthropology department, said Popkov, has just finished a survey which shows that only 43% of all Soviet citizens could fit the readymade clothes now being produced...
...completely irrelevant to the voter trying to decide which man he wants to win. And, more significantly, this dilemma forces Rockefeller to concentrate on issues which emphasize his campaigning ability, his television sex appeal, rather than his political statesmanship. Furthermore, the positions he takes in such a situation tend to be chosen on crowd-pleasing content, for, campaigning to show "Nixon can't win," he himself cannot afford to take an unpopular stand...
...social life, preferring to spend his time with his family (Wife Ollie Mae, two sons, 23 and 19). He still treasures and quotes the faded poets, including Poe, Kipling and Edwin (The Man with the Hoe) Markham, whom he loved in his boyhood. In an age when public men tend to hedge their affirmations, he speaks out forthrightly for such notions as "the integrity of the dollar" and the value of individuality. A devout, Bible-reading Methodist, he last year kept a speaking date by unabashedly reading a 200-line poem he had composed to remind his audience that...