Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Americans, according to Gorer, are psychologically unable to endure the open dislike of the people around them. One example he gives is the difficulty experienced in carrying out a tough policy in conquered Germany. In such situations Americans tend to withdraw, physically if possible; if that is not possible, then chemically, through alcohol, or ideologically, into isolation...
...faced this week's North Croydon by-election with trepidation. In 1945, their man had just squeaked in by 607 votes against strong Labor and Liberal opposition. And Liberals were again entering a candidate, glamorous war hero Air Vice Marshal Donald Bennett, whose "damn the government" platform would tend to sap Tory strength...
Outdoor cooking is also great fun, say the resort folders. "The memory of a meal prepared and eaten in nature's open acres, where the aroma of the fire mixes with the fragrance of the sheltering firs, is long remembered." Those who have tried it tend to agree, for reasons varying with the skill of the chef...
...Angeles got a new archbishop last week. Appointed by the Pope to tend the archdiocese's flock of 600,000 Roman Catholics was New York's tall, lean Coadjutor Archbishop James Francis Aloysius Mclntyre...
Many employers are unaware of the problem facing College graduates, for they tend to feel, as did a representative of Procter and Gamble, that "all boys at Harvard have openings in their fathers concerns." In spite of this attitude only five percent of the undergraduates expect such is future according to a poll distribued by the Office last year...