Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another bright spot for the American hockey team was the selection of its goalie, Willard Ikola, as the outstanding goal-tender in the Cortina competition...
...York City's pro-Eisenhower Daily News was irked by the "tender concern"' Shown for the President since his illness by "practically all the New-Fair Deal" politicians and journalists. "It would be a sin and a shame, according to these folks," said the editorial, "for this lovely character to be high-pressured and dragooned by callous G.O.P. politicians into running for a second wearing, tearing White House term . . . he's earned a rest . . . and sob, sob, sob. What puzzles us is that you hear no similar moans and groans about Senator Lyndon B. Johnson. Senator Johnson...
...sidestepping a series of attacks brought on by his toplofty manner. The last arose after his baton flew out of his hand and struck a player. Able Conductor Halasz was sacked in 1951 and replaced by Austrian-born Joseph Rosenstock who staged a world premiere (Copland's The Tender Land) that failed, a New York premiere (Walton's Troilus and Cressida) that succeeded, two gloomy but interesting U.S. stage premieres (Von Einem's The Trial and Bartok's Blue beard's Castle). He did only passably well by standard repertory, and the board of directors...
Like a fawn born in spring, television passed its tender youth in a favorable climate. During the past six years, while TV sets were becoming common articles of furniture, the sun had few spots to mess up TV reception. Now sunspots are increasing on their nine-to 13-year cycle, and televiewers are apt to see odd and sometimes annoying effects...
...autobiographical prowl among the littered streets and crumbling tenements of Farrell's boyhood on Chicago's South Side. Tart as melting aspirin on the tongue, it lives up to its tag line, "Kilroy was here but left because the place stank." A Baptism in Italy takes a tender look at a beat-up Italian writer-revolutionary who is punchdrunk from too many rounds in a concentration camp. He rouses himself to play gracious host to a sympathetic pair of visiting Americans, and is bitterly hurt to find that they regard him just as an interesting sidetrip. These...