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...notice or not to care, John began taking somewhat larger things home with him. One sizable antique table journeyed from the museum to Chiswick in several installments, most of them hidden in John's trouser leg. Like the other objects in John's home, it received the tenderest care and affection, for John and Mary were both proud of their private museum. Unfortunately, the-public museum from which its beauty stemmed in time grew suspicious. Recently, on a tip from the museum, police raided John's house and found it furnished with some 2,000 objets...
Quartz crystals are harder to grow than the tenderest orchids. How nature does it is not exactly known, and nature does not produce enough big, perfect crystals to provide electrical manufacturers with the quartz slices they need to control radio frequencies...
...Intelligence or Scotland Yard, but by the FBI, whom the British called into the case. Fuchs, said the FBI, had made a partial confession. He had been a secret member of the Communist Party for at least eight years, probably longer. Since 1943 he had had access to the tenderest U.S. and British atomic secrets...
...Wolfie," who had some difficulty getting Elda's name straight, used to rub the bloom off their tenderest moments by murmuring into her hair, "Ella," or "Ida," or "Edna," or "Nella" (the names of his previous wives). With the help of a numerologist, she converted Elda into Hedda and Wolfie never barked up the wrong tree again...
Canada's tenderest corn, her new realization of nationhood, was clumsily bumped by the deputies of the Council of Foreign Ministers. Currently meeting in London, the Big Four's men had given Canada ten days to submit her views in writing on the German and Austrian peace settlements. Canada, they said, could supplement them later with oral arguments...