Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Luther Asle Curtis, water tender, first class, Wilmington...
...defense guards patrolled the city by automobile; 2,700 more citizens volunteered. Torrential rains fell; closed windows in the editorial office of the Houston Post could not keep out the rain; there was half an inch of water on the floor. Rice farmers along the Texas coast watched the tender stalks-the biggest crop in years, ready to harvest-smashed into flat ruin in an instant. East Texas became a country of blinding rain, flooded roads, broken communications, broken windows, stalled cars, banging signs.' Lights went out, but great gas flares burning in the oil fields stretched out like...
...string backfield is Captain Gene Davis, a 195 pound Senior, who, besides clearing the way for the Penn offensive, kicks placements and illustrated on last year's field goal that he is effective on place kicks up to 20 yards. Reports from Philadelphia have had Davis benched with a "tender" shoulder for the past few days, but it is safe to say that he and not the Sophomore sub, Jack Nolan, will be in there when the starting whistle blows...
...long line, cheerfully helped Canadian soldiers unload equipment and ammunition. Later the Russians opened their communal food center to the Canadians. Enthusiastic Major Murdoch reported: "We tasted such delicacies as borsch and cranberry pie for the first time, and were regaled on steaks hung till they were so tender they could have been eaten with a spoon...
...bucked up his exhausted troops by holding a review. Said Gringoire: "When they passed in front of their chief, they turned their hardened, sunburned faces toward him, in an immense téte-à-téte. All of their expressions were at once so proud and so tender that one could not tell whether it was they who were saluting the general, or the general who greeted his children...