Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After broiling that tough old rooster, Governor J. Bracken Lee. in Utah's Republican gubernatorial primary, G.O.P. Nominee George Clyde seemed to have a tender pigeon in Democratic Candidate Lorenzo Clark Romney. But last week Bracken Lee, who still has a dedicated personal following, announced his candidacy as a write-in independent, a move sure to cut into Clyde's Republican vote next month. Result of the Republican split: Democrat Romney was transformed from dead pigeon into an ominous Utah sea gull...
...foggy moors and smoky cities of England it came, music that sang of Technicolor landscapes and of love that was tender, contented, and safely married. Every song was almost without flaw, as in a languorous dream, rich and edgeless as whipped cream, and always giving a hint of something a little more respectable than a mere pop tune, as the massed strings soared to the discrete pulsation of a harp or a guitar. And sometimes the music actually was more respectable, as when it was an orchestral arrangement of an operatic aria. This was the music of Annunzio Paolo Mantovani...
Munro is expected to stick with his regular starting lineup, except for the goal tender. Elliot Finkelstein, injured in last Saturday's Amherst game, is uncertain as a starter. Jim Perkins, another fine Crimson goalie, may replace him tomorrow...
...best year since Thomas A. Edison first captured the human voice on a tinfoil-covered cylinder. This week RCA Victor announced its alltime high advance sale for a single pressing-more than 1,000,000 copies of Rock 'n' Roll Hero Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender, a surprisingly restrained love ballad that was just released. The Record Industry Association of America estimated that U.S. record sales have jumped 30% over last year's $225 million. The total may approach $300 million with the Christmas rush...
...Tender Trap. In Reno, lacking 50? of the $10 he needed to bail out his wife, who was jailed on a drunkenness charge, Marvin Wheeler light-fingered some brass plumbing fixtures from the police station, sold them to get the half dollar and freed his wife, was jailed himself for petty theft, was still locked up three days later when his wife was jugged again for drunkenness...