Word: tendernesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...America has had a way of life in the past, surely these present symptoms are not in agreement with that way of life. Small though they may be now, they must be recognized as the tender yet tenacious roots of an incipient American Fascism that may not have to take off its hat to any breed of Fascism grown abroad. Even if they provide no tremendous threat in themselves, and this is not by any means certain, they can serve as precedents for far more injurious movements in the not too distant future. America's battle against Fascism...
...with the estimated 80,000 banged heads they meet every year. Practical tips: ¶ The human skull, an average of one-fifth of an inch thick, is so elastic that often a heavy blow from a blunt instrument only dents it "momentarily." Yet in such cases the tender brain is almost always wounded. In auto accidents, "when a head in forward motion is suddenly arrested by a massive stationary object, the greatest brain damage occurs at a point directly opposite the point of impact. ¶Even patients who are unconscious "only for a moment" should never be sent home...
Into the darkness and silence streamed rescuers. From twisted cars, one of which had had its roof stripped off, they extracted the injured, the dead and the dying. Telescoped into the tender was the Limited's baggage car. Six sleepers, the diner and a day coach of the 15-car train were jerked off the track, rolled helter-skelter in grinding wreckage. Of 208 passengers, few escaped some injury. Thirty died, one of them P. O. Becker, toy train maker of Moline, Ill. Among the uninjured: Sports Broadcaster Bill Stern; a score or more Chinese in the custody...
...nine years Luxembourg's best friend-in-residence has been the U. S. Chargé d'Affaires, George Platt Waller, who bestows on the dynasties of Central Europe that tender, familiar worship that the true Southern aristocrat can give only to royal families and his own. Visiting U. S. journalists address him as "Mr. Minister," enjoy equally his Martinis and his conversation. He likes to have them in Luxembourg because, if the Grand Duchy is invaded again, he wants neutral witnesses of her rape. No alarmist either, it was he who undoubtedly facilitated Reporter Casey's quick...
...Claudine," far from being "tender, revealing and gay" is the fitful stepchild of a distorted imagination. The bracing earthiness of French humor is gone, the edge of satire dulled, the atmosphere laden down with cloyingly pastoral photography...