Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yugoslav Government in Exile in London, had publicly taken sides with Serb Nationalist Mihailovich. Oldtime Serb nationalists, who hold most of the posts in the Government in Exile, tend to attack the non-Serb elements in Yugoslavia, particularly the Partisans, whom they accuse of plundering the people of Yugoslavia. But poverty-stricken, oppressed Balkan peasants, traditionally pro-Russian, are attracted by slogans, long associated with Moscow, such as "Land to the Landless," "Higher Wages," and "People's Governments." Many Yugoslavs wish their Government would negotiate with the Partisans, through Moscow, to create a unified strategy and perhaps a unified...
Bubble Bust. In Great Falls, Mont., prisoners at the county jail wanted to contribute their cell bars to the scrap drive, wrote the county commissioners: "Return our hacksaws - and we will tend to the rest." The commissioners contributed the saws instead...
...Diabetes is more than twice as common among Jews as among Gentiles. Reasons: 1) the incidence of heredity is higher among them, 2) Jews tend to be fatter than other peoples...
...Milwaukee "high rates [of insanity] are concentrated in the center of the city, in the rooming-house and Negro district. . . . High rates tend to follow river valleys." In a riverside district of Peoria, Ill., insanity is nine times as frequent as in another district on the bluffs. In Chicago, where the Chicago River turns to form a Y whose stem flows into Lake Michigan, the maximum concentration of insanity exactly coincides with this...
...Canadians, a U.S. soldier does not hesitate to leap off a Hyde Park bench and catch a passing pretty around the waist. Average forgiveness time, they report, is three minutes for civilians, somewhat longer for girls in uniform. For daylight dates, soldiers like the prestige of uniforms. But they tend to choose unmilitary women for the evening: service girls must report back to barracks by 11 o'clock...