Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ribbing himself. The show clicked almost from the start. Pepsodent's president took Hope on his yacht, remarked: "This is the ship that Amos 'n' Andy built." Said Hope: "If I'm on the Pepsodent payroll much longer, you'll use this as a tender...
...roosters' red combs paled and shrank; they grew female feathers and a layer of fat; their pubic bones spread; they lolled around like capons. After roasting, they tasted much better than ordinary cockerels. When Lorenz treated stringy, dark-fleshed old roosters, their meat also became light and tender. Lorenz has tried his discovery only on chickens and turkeys, but biochemists do not expect it to stop there; some even envision the production of sweet-tempered bulls like the fictional Ferdinand...
...Laraine Day) into giving him a gambling concession at a relief ball. Lucky's war-relief plan is simple: to cheat Manhattan's social heavy cream out of its white ties and rhinestones. But as time wears on, Gambler Grant, who is of Greek extraction, develops a tender conscience as a result of the courage of his compatriots and his love for eager Heiress Day. So he heroically double-crosses his pals, recovers from a consequent slug in the midriff and renders himself worthy of Cinemactress Day by joining the Merchant Marine...
Explanations. In Atlantic City, N.J., six-year-old George Patrick McLaughlin of Philadelphia was discovered hiding in a locomotive tender, promptly demanded spinach, explained he was en route to join the Marines and fight the Japs. In Jefferson County, Mo., twelve-year-old Vina Marler Nash, newly married, commented, "It's pretty nice. ... I guess I won't have to go back to school this fall." In Junction City, Kans., Marguerite See, a bus driver, drove with one foot bare, explained, "I can do a smoother job on the clutch...
...cruisers, six destroyers, twelve transports and had two battleships, a cruiser and six destroyers damaged, has the Jap dared get in a real slugfest with U.S. naval units. But since mid-June, in various fruitless sallies, he has lost six to seven cruisers, at least eleven destroyers, one seaplane tender, one transport, four to six cargo ships. Admitted U.S. losses for that same period were the cruiser Helena, the destroyers Strong and Gwin and the transport McCawley...