Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Take That. In New Orleans, Drawbridge Tender Albert White indulged in a few drinks, then in a long-suppressed impulse: he let a car onto the bridge, dumped it off again...
...getting aboard the Soviet Steamship Alma Ata. The FBI had arrested him as a spy. He had been under "intensive observation" for months, said the FBI, which charged that he had "induced another to obtain plans, documents and writings relating to the Yellowstone, a U.S. destroyer tender." The information, it added, "was to be used to the advantage of a foreign nation, to wit: the U.S.S.R...
...shunned public entertainment, he liked to give lavish drinking parties. In Happy Valley, near Chungking, site of his secret headquarters, he toasted visitors with innumerable kam pels. He could down 18 Chinese wine cups filled with brandy in an evening's bout. He was hard and he was tender. He personally succored victims of Jap atrocities, established orphanages for Chinese waifs. For Communists and fellow travelers, he maintained concentration camps. He was an honest man, scorning the traditional "squeeze." Once he discovered a close friend's malfeasance, invited him to dinner, had police arrest him, testified against...
...Sailor Takes a Wife. June Allyson and Robert Walker in a tender, hilarious honeymoon (TIME, March...
...years, Puritans attacked most of Dreiser's novels tooth & nail for their frankness and coarseness. The Bulwark is Dreiser's tender tribute to all that was good in the forces which most bitterly attacked...