Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former believe that young people in their late teens and early twenty should be protected against dangerous thoughts. The college or university, according to this view, should be a nurse where tender plants are protected again the rough winds of controversy. It assumed that later on, when they are matured and toughened, it will then safe to expose them. There are some, course, who believe that time next comes, and who would enlarge the nursery to accommodate American of all ages...
...fulfill the obligation of public service, all institutions of higher education must educate not only their own students, but the people at large, to value such institution for that unique service which they alone are qualified to render. They must not be expected to be retreats for the tender minded, clubs for the privileged, factories for the manufacture of standardized products, or even training centers for specialists, but communities of freedom where the art of freedom is taught, portside, learned and so deeply implanted as to last for life...
...Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger. A tender-tough story about a 16-year-old who tries on a man-about-town role several sizes too large for him (TIME, July...
...swirling eddy of interest around Ava Gardner is no fluke. Though Hollywood's rulers, whose egos are as tender as a redhead's complexion, are understandably reluctant to admit it, the movies have had to take up arms against a sea of troubles. Recovered from the first shock but still haunted by the specter of TV, beset by mounting production costs, harried by a falling box office, Hollywood is also facing an unexpected shortage in its most vital commodity of all-the mysterious attraction that everybody recognizes but no one has ever .been able to label more accurately...
...Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger. A tender-tough story about a 16-year-old who tries on a man-about-town role several sizes too large for him (TIME, July...