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Stocks & Solitaires. What does he encounter on the way but a "pair of tender eyes which seemed to repeat the prophet's exhortation, 'Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.' " The trouble is, Sophia is already married to Christiano, an amiable young businessman whose soul, alas, "is a patchwork quilt." Though he would kill the man who touched his wife, Christiano is flattered when men try. This suits Sophia, a flirt with "an intuitive appreciation of solitaires." It also suits Rubião. To keep his welcome sweet at Christiano's, he lends...
...doubt my daughter's aristocratic descent is to slander the father of the fiancee of Farouk, whose wedding is imminent." At week's end, however, Irma herself hastened to restore Farouk to full bachelor status. "I prefer not to marry," sighed she. "Farouk is sensible and tender, but marriage is the tomb of love...
Platform & Tender. A more advanced kind of platform is made only big enough to support the drilling machinery. The rest of the outfit, including crew quarters and all supplies, is carried in a tender: a good-sized ship tethered close to the platform. Pipes and other heavy objects are swung across by a sling running on thick cables. Liquid necessities travel in flexible hoses. If a hurricane approaches, the tender can take all hands on board and run for shelter. A rig of this type, belonging to Gulf Oil Corp., is now drilling off Corpus Christi, Texas in 67 feet...
...will vote for you," announced the Red spokesman as the Chamber reconvened, "because we wish to do everything possible for restoring peace in Indo-China." Mendes gave the Communists an icy comeuppance. "I must tender my thanks ... for the precious support ..." he said. "[But] ... I ask what would be the feelings of our soldiers in Indo-China if they learned that a government was constituted thanks to the votes of those who have sullied men who devotedly died for their country . . .?" If he did not get a clear majority without Communist votes, Mendes said, he would consider himself rejected...
...midst of it all, usually coatless and with shirtsleeves rolled high, Walter Packard worked side by side with his Greek friends. In a few weeks, the dubious villagers who came down each evening at dusk to watch work on the newly flooded paddyfields were rewarded with the sight of tender green shoots reaching skyward. "It was like a miracle from the gods," said one of them...