Word: tenderer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indian Ocean might raise an implicit threat to the Strait of Malacca, through which Japan gets its oil from the Middle East, as well as to Indonesia and even Australia. The U.S. until now has had only a brace of destroyers and the Valcour, an ex-seaplane tender stationed at the former British base in Bahrain. From now on, though, task forces from the Seventh Fleet will be periodically patrolling the strategic sea lanes and showing neutral nations something other than the Russian flag...
Would you pass up that tender, delicious sirloin (see picture at right) for a soybean ham omelette...
LIVING WELL IS THE BEST REVENGE, by Calvin Tomkins. High life in Paris and on the Côte d'Azur with two rich Americans, one of whom became F. Scott Fitzgerald's Dick Diver in Tender Is the Night. Slight but beautiful...
...from his primarily personal style of poetry to a more public form of expression. Although this transition did not apparently provide Thomas with the necessary artistic or existential answers (he died of drink several months after he completed the play), his own inner suffering fails to surface in this tender and humorous description of a small Welsh town...
There were other misfortunes. For two tender years she painfully wore a metal back brace to correct a spinal curvature. On an 1887 ocean crossing-following a European tour that was unaccountably supposed to divorce Elliott from alcohol-the Roosevelts' ship was rammed by another, and Eleanor was treated to a 77tam'c-style scene of tragedy and hysteria that left her with a lifelong fear of water...