Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...administered. To be 100% effective, its administrator would need power to make drastic and speedy decisions in every question of international finance that arose, without any advice from timid souls in the State Department. State's point of view was represented in the current orders by the tender treatment of Spain and Russia as compared to Italy and Germany, and by the fact that Japan was not mentioned at all. If & when the President sets up a ministry of economic warfare, the freezing order would be such a ministry's first weapon...
...this very house lived old Dexter Pratt, whose popular blacksmith shop had been built next door at the corner of Story Street. Walking daily between Craigie House and Harvard Hall, Professor Longfellow Habitually stopped to chat with the genial forget tender. A strong friendship developed between the two, climaxed in 1839 when the poet immortalized smithy in a work that has been chanted by American schoolboys ever since...
Lots of people write nice letters to eye-some, earsome, young Cinemactress Deanna Durbin, some of them pretty big shots too. But last week she got fan mail from the biggest shot south of Berchtesgaden. Benito Mussolini's own Popolo d'Italia wrote and published a tender little note...
...should answer [the Duce's] billet-doux, Deanna, you might ask him why he's more tender of American than of his own youth. . . . What leader started the business of war for the young anyway...
...older he grew, and the less easily intoxicated by things he became, the more he kept himself in writing fettle by getting drunk on his own words. In consequence, much of his later verse (notably his brilliantly loquacious Autumn Journal} is lively but devitalizing reading. It contains humorous, tender and thoughtful patches; but for the most part it reveals an ugly picture of a man writing with a stiff, long upper lip and a flaccid heart...