Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is nothing between us and Red Beach but twinkling, flaring, dancing explosions. Two white fountains spring up in the water just ahead of our tender and the commander snaps: 'Here it comes. Mortars. Get down!' We duck. Then there is the pinging of machine-gun fare and we duck again. Now an amphtank chuffs up on the beach, swings and throws a shot to the left. Next in are the amphtracks, and then the landing boats, loaded with troops. Presently the beach has a jeep, a bulldozer, a U.S. flag. These things make the landing official...
...Board, much more than our warriors of the Office of War Information, more even than most of our war correspondents (certainly than those in Moscow), the Russian writer has been in & out of the war. And this is not just correspondents: it is poets, writers of the most tender lyrics, historians - all of them...
With this tender masterpiece of home-spun comedy, John Van Druten proves to all and sundry that sophistication is not his only forte. It's the heart-warming story of the Hansons, a poor but honest San Francisco family of a generation ago, and it's headed for the land of happy hits...
Behind the Dixie Flyer's tender were two baggage cars and 14 coaches. In the first three coaches rode 75 Army Air Forces pilots, gunners and radiomen. Most of them had flown dangerous missions over Italy, had earned and spent 30 days at home in the U.S. Now, assigned to duty in the U.S., they were bound for Miami. Before they went to bed, they yelled, sang, talked with a luxurious feeling of safety about bombing raids. The crash that sent their sleepers rolling into the soybean fields beside the track killed 25 of them within seconds...
...They persist in "seeking out the tender shoots of mental illness and nurturing them into full bloom" and translating "moral values into pathological terms...