Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subject to call immediately, all are required to go after receiving a six-month notice. This proviso may be waived, however, in case of extreme emergency, so Dick Harlow, with spring practice coming up, and Floyd Stable, with baseball drill well under way, are on tender books...
...Tender took his life in his hands and visited the blonde girl. "I don't mean any harm," he pleaded, "please let me come in. . . . Can you understand this -can you believe this? Just for a little while, can't we forget this war? Just for a little while. Just for a little while, can't we talk together like people -together?" She looked at him for a long time and smiled. "You don't know who I am, do you?" she said. She was Alex Morden's widow...
...Universal studios had revealed his true ambitions. The studio sent him upcountry to take some fast-action cattle shots for a Western. It was apple-blossom time and -to a man with an itch to direct-irresistible. When the studio ran the film, it was charmingly interspersed with tender shots of dropping apple blossoms. They almost...
...Army cookbook is full of advice to cook dough until it is a "delicate brown," to keep meat "succulent and tender." There are also plenty of suggestions for mess sergeants, who are responsible for adapting Army menus to the locales in which their troops serve. Although soldiers in their first six months of service gain an average 8 to 16 Ib., few of them are satisfied with the food that is dished up to them...
Most expressive tribute to Beverly's bracing quality was paid by a Fort Logan soldier: "She has a sense of humor as sharp as jailhouse coffee." One of the most tender came to her from a boy at Fort Francis E. Warren, near Cheyenne, Wyo. Said he: "You couldn't seem any closer than you do coming into this big barracks room. Your voice is all sort of warm and sparkling. . . ." Most telling tribute of all came from Army Morale Officers who now send her daily announcements they want their men to remember...