Word: tendernesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. Redin, a Soviet Purchasing Commission agent, had been picked up by the FBI just before he and his attractive wife Galina were to depart for Russia last March. The charge: he had bought secret information about the not-so-secret U.S. Navy destroyer tender Yellowstone. His accuser: a man he had thought was his friend, elderly Herbert Kennedy, a marine engineer who worked in the yards where the Yellowstone was built...
...Russians a dangerously erroneous idea of the Leathernecks). Latest favorite: the American Soldier's Song, which most Russians believe is constantly crooned by G.I.s; it is a speeded up version of There Is a Tavern in the Town, in which the tavern has become the scene of tender leave-taking between a girl and a soldier...
...Kelly, chronic assassin of the King's English, began to speak. No one, he said, had ever before voluntarily resigned as chairman of the Cook County Democratic Committee, They either died, or got tossed out on their ear, he said. He wound up: "I hereby render-uh-tender my resignation." The boys clapped, there were murmurs of "Aw, Boss...
...best hot records of recent years. Don Byas, temporarily forsaking the riffy, howling style he has been courting lately, and Johnny Hodges, from whom one might well have expected at least one good performance, take up most of the twelve inches with slow lyrical and tender soloings on an undistinguished, though at least idiomatic, popular tune of several years back called "Gone With the Wind." Hodges is on his best behaviour, playing the type of music he likes best in the style in which he best likes to play it; and as for Don Carlos Byas, eh bien; some circles...
Most of the work in the exhibit was done after the first of Remington's countless western tours. He made the trip at 19, on feet still tender from a year at Yale. He got his first callus when a tinhorn took him for his last cent. He added blisters working as clerk, ranch cook and cowhand. Finally he joined (as a correspondent) the fight against the Apache chief Geronimo...