tending

• “Bar tending is high on the list of the most dangerous jobs in the country ..”

  On Guns In Bars

• “The U.S. should have seen an increase in the money supply, causing higher prices and over the long term tending to restore trade balance.”

  The Wall Street Journal: China's Real Monetary Problem

• “More on lump sums: Research, caution help in tending lump sumADVICE: Five tips to protect your lump sumGOVERNMENT: Will Congress ever cut retiree benefits?”

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• “No, Anna Marie Jarvis wanted to honor her mother, who had been active in tending the wounded of both sides during the Civil War, for having been a leader in Mother's Day campaigns for peace and worker's safety and health from the end of that war to her death.”

  A Mother's Day Surprise

• “Another purpose is a form of lightning protection, again tending to keep the house wiring relatively close to ground during a lightning strike.”

  how does "grounding" pole in the ground work?

• “And if you apply the habit of looking over everything once a week, you can feel comfortable about never being more than a week behind in tending to important matters.”

  Organize Your Life!

• “Jackson, also a medic, took turns with me in tending to Johnson.”

  Pitzer, Daniel L.

• “Not that Gerard had ever uttered a word tending in that direction since he had been seven years old, but that would make it all the prettier; they would both be silently constant, till the time came, perhaps when she was of age.”

  Nuttie's Father

• “To break or damage in a grinding sort of way is to graunch, a word tending to replace puckeroo, I think.”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1

• “My next task was to explore the galley, which I found to be very nicely fitted up with what appeared to be an excellent cooking-stove and a generous supply of implements, the whole of which had, like the articles in the cabin, found their way right over to the starboard side; moreover the top of the stove was rusted in such a way as to suggest that the water from the coppers had been capsized over it -- everything, in short, tending to confirm my original impression that the brig had been on her beam-ends.”

  The Castaways

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