Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Sir Stafford returned from Moscow last month he was widely credited with the intention of leading the opposition in the House of Commons. The great question last week was whether he would be able to keep his leftward weight in the Government, or would tend to be absorbed by the Conservative majority. Many Britons bet on Sir Stafford. Some were wary, like the Evening Standard, which commented: "[Churchill] has briefed the best lawyer in the country to defend his Government...
...pressed to take tonight's engagement. Chase has planned to start the same lineup which Clark Hodder used before mid-year examinations. Stan Collinson, Ned Harding, and Tommy Ayres will be on the front line, Captain Dick Mechem and Orrin Wood will man the defense, and Gus Summers will tend the cage at face-off time...
Purpose of this mechanism in planes (and submarines) is to overcome torque or sideways twist created when 1) the air's resistance to the rotating screw makes the engine tend to rotate the plane itself, 2) the whirling air stream behind the propeller hits the lifting surfaces at a skew angle. Torque must be counteracted by ailerons and rudder, especially in small planes whose bodies-like those of small submarines-do not in themselves provide enough stable ruddering...
Orrin Wood, just recovered from a cold, has been named to man one defensive slot, while standby Captain Dick Mechem will be at his familiar right defense post when the whistle blows. Jim Summers, who turned in a good defensive performance in Wednesday's shutout of Milton, will tend the cage...
Bolivar's great contemporary and rival, San Martin, the Liberator of Argentina and Chile, was also in exile, also embittered, but expressed himself more philosophically. "You don't seem to know," he remarked to a friend who blamed him for leaving politics to tend his garden, "that two-thirds of the inhabitants of this earth are idiots, the rest criminals...