Word: tendering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which form in about 50% of the cases) with forceps or a corkscrew of silver wire. Then, if no more than two inches of artery have been lost, the torn arterial ends can be stitched together with a hairlike needle and fine silk. The needle must not enter the tender inner lining of the artery, but only its tough coat. After the artery is joined, a strip of nearby muscle can be wrapped around the suture to reinforce...
...supplement to the fine portrayal by word and picture of the man "with the tender eyes and jaw of iron" [Chiang Kaishek] in TIME, June 1, the following is quoted from one of the daily readings in our current quarterly...
Yankee Doodle tries hard to squeeze 50 years of Cohan Americana into two hours and six minutes of celluloid. It succeeds best with the early years-the tough, tender, Irish clannishness of The Four Cohans (Father Walter Huston, Mother Rosemary DeCamp, Daughter Jeanne Cagney,† Son Jimmy) and their variety act; Songwriter Cohan's accidental partnership with Sam H. Harris (Richard Whorf), his ambiguous first meeting with his future wife (Joan Leslie), who came backstage while young Cohan was playing his mother's father in Buffalo, N.Y. "I'm 18," she confided...
...hardheadedness, one son runs away, another fares worse, he loses his wife, the river ravages his land. He winds up on the verge of "a void where there were neither directions nor dimensions." Peter is sympathetically realized, and he is surrounded by some refreshing characters. There are genuinely tender domestic scenes, and a deeply felt sense of what a house, a farm, a son, a grandchild can mean. Yet Floods of Spring, which sets out to be a philosophical novel, is more often an over-insistent tract...
...That for the sake of diplomacy and international unity, the President had had to watch his beloved Navy lose many a ship, including the cruiser Houston and the aircraft tender Langley-without comment other than his citation of Admiral Hart...