Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caught. But as he spoke the U.S. Government was still watching him. It urgently asked Great Britain to hold him for extradition. When the Batory dropped anchor off Southampton a tender bearing a Scotland Yard inspector, a covey of beefy British plainclothesmen, two indignant Polish diplomats and a scattering of U.S. officials chugged out to meet...
Princess Margaret, constantly ogled by crowds, reporters and detectives on her trip to Italy, was nonetheless boosting Anglo-Italian relations. "Her eyes," burbled a stricken newsman, "look ahead. They are the most beautiful things she has brought to Naples, grey and very tender, clear as the air of Capri...
...Soviet Pundit Ilya Ehrenburg fought the good fight part of the time in the bar, sampling French liqueurs. Fragile, gray-haired Mme. Eugénie Cotton, French physicist and president of the International Democratic Federation of Women (who had been denied a visa to the New York conference) smiled tender approval of the proceedings. The conference chairman, lean, somber Communist Frédéric Joliot-Curie, France's atomic-energy boss, set the keynote. "We are not here to ask for peace but to impose it. This congress is the reply of peoples to the signers...
...spring he had nursed his right heel, tender after an operation for a bone spur last fall. The heel got worse instead of better. In exhibition games in Texas recently he tried putting some pressure on it, and the pain made sport-page headlines from Maine to Mexico. Last week, while DiMag was flown to Baltimore for diagnosis, the press speculated on 1) whether he would be out of the line-up for a few weeks or forever and 2) whether the New York Yankees would pay him $90,000 for a season of sitting on the bench...
Dressing-Room Drill. On his birthday they were just rehearsing for Toscanini's opera broadcast of the season-the riproaring, tearfully tender music of Verdi's Aida. The music meant something special to the maestro. He had conducted it in his Rio de Janeiro debut almost 63 years ago as a beardless bambino, and in his U.S. debut at Manhattan...