Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tide of war turned, he wrote again with his old vigor. The country felt his weight until he died. Canada had long offered him honors: a Cabinet post, appointment as first Minister to Washington, a knighthood. Dafoe had said: "Me a knight? Why, I tend my own furnace and shovel snow off my porch." He would, he said, remain a writing man. A writing man he died...
...thousands of U.S. professionals and amateurs, nearly all are admittedly terrible. Their difficulties arise from the nature of the flute. Except under the most expert control, its tones have a whistling, flatulent quality which even a flutist's best friends pass over in discreet silence. Its lower tones tend toward the hoot. When it is played loudly it goes sharp, when softly, flat. Only the greatest virtuosos can play it in tune...
...Drinkers tend to be a good deal more materialistic and selfish, less loyal to friends, fonder of money (they generally have less...
...Married people tend to drink more than bachelors, Catholics than Protestants, Democrats than Republicans...
...order and to persuade its citizens to act internationally, in terms of lowered tariffs, settlement of war debts, etc. Until that has been accomplished, as Banker Leon Fraser put it last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 29), global fiscal institutions "are over-grandiose and oversimple at the same time." They tend to lull the common man into believing that the affairs of the world can be settled before the problems of its component parts have been solved...