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First-string net-tender John Ogden will return to the line-up but Tom Cooney remains sidelined. Both goalies received injuries during Saturday's game...
...Your boy is going to have nothing but trouble in Europe, and, offhand, I can't think of a place you can send him which will be free enough from the horrors of sex for one of such tender sensibilities. You might try sending him to Philadelphia...
...press that was pointing to the effects of Senator McCarthy's tactics on the Administration's authority . . . "Have Walter Lippmann, or Joseph Alsop, who write for a syndicate owned by a Republican newspaper, commented on this Administration's foreign policy with 'tender solicitude'? Has the New York Times or the New York Herald Tribune or the Washington Post and Times Herald, all of whom supported the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, shown any 'devotion' to this Administration's program on the big questions of 'loyalty' at home...
Lights does more deep and tender credit to the human race than this one. Like a penny in the gutter, a heart catches the light. It isn't much, and there are millions like it, but it's coin of the realm, and only a proud child, no matter what his age, will pass...
...entirely convincing, urge for expiation. Despite its sad undertones, The Breaking Wave is a novel in which the characters chin up to life more often than they gloom up over the accidents of fate. A skilled storyteller, Shute makes his combat scenes exciting and his love-in-bloom scenes tender, peppers both with Hitchcocky suspense. In his 18th novel, Nevil Shute, onetime Royal Navy lieutenant-commander, proves again that he is one of the most expert countermen working literature's snack...