Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pirates. "What sort of people are they," asks the Times, "the oldest of the Old Powers, the youngest-indeed the unborn-of the Newest Powers, starting to challenge Fate again?" There are, it believes, "one or two obvious facts" about themselves which the British tend to ignore: "their ruthlessness, for example. The English in America exterminated one race, the Red Indians, almost completely, and imported another race, the Negroes, as slaves, on whom they inflicted unspeakable brutalities. The English in Australia carried extermination even further ... a good deal of it by the simple use of arsenic, though there were other...
Dean Lowe, who knew, wasn't saying. Said he: "If by inadvertence I let slip something which may conceivably give a clue to [the donor's] identity, I beg you most earnestly not to take advantage of it, but to restrain those detective instincts which tend to be stimulated in some of us by such a challenge to our ingenuity...
Will Lawther comes from Durham, and is therefore a Geordie (native of northeast England). As such, he would tend to give his aitches the harsh Teutonic guttural overemphasis of his Nordic ancestors. Never by any misadventure would he drop an aspirate. If he must be rendered phonetically (as you so love to do with cockney taxi drivers, who all seem to say "bloody" every fourth word-and, for the sake of accuracy, I'd like to point out that bloody has been superseded since World War II by a four-letter word as yet unprintable), what he said should...
...symposium, concludes by weighing the merits of British and U.S. radio. "The American system . . . gives the listener without license fee a greater variety of programs. It has two disadvantages which have made this country prefer a public monopoly. There are the irritating interruptions of the advertiser; and the programs tend to follow rather than to lead the public taste...
...characteristics and forces that tend to make a man a criminal, says Dr. von Hentig, are diverse and complicated. A contributing factor may be ugliness, deafness, a physical handicap. Even the time of year and day has an effect (crimes of violence and sex reach their peak in late spring; most women, are murdered between...