Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pint-sized Miller Anderson was the best twist diver in the U.S. Over Italy, 13 months ago, Captain Anderson bailed out of his P-47, smashed his left leg against the tail of the plane. He fell behind the Nazi lines, and the Germans, too busy retreating to tend to him, let his bad leg get worse. When U.S. Army doctors reached him, they screwed a three-inch silver plate in just above the knee, and patched him up so that he didn't limp. But when he got back to college last January, Ohio State's swimming...
three classes--the "fundamental conditions which naturally tend to handicap a tutorial system," complications resulting from the effects of war, and individual departmental policy toward tutorial...
...wrong end of a telescope, was A.L.P.A. President David Behncke, a suave, self-assured retired pilot who looks about as radical as any Philadelphia Main Liner. Behind him was the combined strength of some 5,000 similar radicals-reserved, well-dressed citizens who own homes in fashionable suburbs and tend to vote the Republican ticket...
Civilians Supreme. Opponents had argued that merger would mean a "derogation" of civilian authority, but Harry Truman took the opposite view. To his way of thinking, civilian secretaries of separate departments tend to become the partisans of their respective services; final decision consequently devolved upon the uniformed Joint Chiefs of Staff. Civilian control would be strengthened under "one Cabinet member with clear and primary responsibility for the exercise of that control." Said the President: "The American people . . . need have no fear that their democratic liberties will be imperiled so long as they continue fulfilling their duties of citizenship...
...years, Army & Navy airmen had feared an attack by economy-minded Congressmen on their most precious perquisite-flying pay. For flying more than four hours a month they get 50% added to their pay. The attack had not come during wartime, when combat conditions tend to equalize the hazards of the infantrymen and the aviator, but it came in Congress last week in the brave new light of peace...