Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vinson rites, the President had a tender embrace for Mrs. Vinson, a brief handshake for Harry Truman, who was also among the mourners. By midafternoon, Ike was off again for Denver, ordering the Columbine's Pilot William Draper to pour on the speed. The President had a personal reason for urgency: his son, Major John Eisenhower, was due to land in Denver at 9 o'clock that night, after 14 months in Korea. Ike got to Denver with 2½ hours to spare...
...built a boy-meets-girl idyll around the notion that dreams may be shared though the dreamers be continents apart. In Love-o'-Women and On Greenhow Hill, he managed to rate love higher than etiquette; and in Without Benefit of Clergy he actually sang a tender hymn to miscegenation...
...playing the game, bearing the white man's burden, and being kind to animals. To prevent shortsighted swallows from colliding with overhead wires, for exampie, bird lovers festoon the telegraph lines with wooden bobbins, visible a mile away. Last week the lowly barnyard hen was the object of tender British solicitude...
SHIP AHOY! YOUR WONDERFUL JULY 27 ARTICLE, "DESIGN FOR LIVING," TOUCHED A TENDER SPOT IN A SAILING ENTHUSIAST. WHEN MY WIFE, TWO DAUGHTERS, DACHSHUND AND I SET SAIL ON OUR 18-FT. SEAGULL, "SCHORR-NUFF," THOSE WE LEAVE BEHIND PROCLAIM US NUTS. TIME HAS PRINTED THE TRUTH. WE ARE LIVING. THOSE LANDLUBBERS ARE NUTS...
...Rouault's reputation grew. His art was growing even faster; it lost the taint of caricature and took on the glow of compassion. Religious paintings became his most important work. At first, pure torment was what they conveyed. Then slowly Rouault imbued them with infinitely weary, infinitely tender peace. The same peace flooded his harsh landscapes, and his clowns ceased to be merely pathetic; they became almost Christlike...