Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will throw it 60 feet. I hope I'm the one." His post-graduation plans now that he has his degree in sight (A.B., Sociology major) include competition for the New York Athletic Club, then a shot at the 1952 Olympics. Said perfectionist Shot-putter Fuchs, rubbing a tender index finger: "If I were satisfied now, I'd never get any better...
...Pound's essay is more than the customary diatribe by a self-exiled literary rebel against America's cultural bourgeoisie. Years before he turned renegade to his nation to back Fascism, Pound had a profound sense of America's vigor and promise. He could sound paternally tender of its youth ("America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation . . .") and he could grow lyrical, in his strangely dissonant way, over a New York crowd-"a crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigor unlike that of any European crowd...
...matters concerning loyalty, patriotism and political reliability." Actually, said Chavez cuttingly, Budenz had led a life of "bawdy personal excesses," had three children by his present wife before marrying her in 1945, and had been arrested 21 times "before he joined the Communists in 1935 at the tender...
From the U.S.S. Norton Sound, a converted Navy seaplane tender cruising the Pacific south of Hawaii, came a bit of rather ominous news. A Viking rocket (body by Glenn L. Martin Co. propulsion by Reaction Motors, Inc.) had been launched from its deck to an altitude of 106.4 miles. This is only a few miles short of the record for single-stage rockets (114 mi.) made by the larger German...
Last week, as spring melted the high snows of the Cascade and Olympic mountains, warmed Idaho's forests of ponderosa pine and turned Oregon's rain-sprinkled coastal valleys a lush and tender green, the Northwest pulsed with prosperity and hope. Its clean and airy cities reflected neither the gaudiness nor the fevered excitement which westward migration had given Southern California, but the signs of expansion and new enterprise were everywhere...