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Word: tenders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English father and an English-Japanese mother-wear flame-red shirts, rose-pink coats, lobster-colored tight pants, blue or white suede shoes. They have learned their art from listening to U.S. records of Elvis Presley, though sometimes the lyrics suffer a transoceanic mutilation, as in Rub Me Tender and Rittoru Dahring (Little Darling). Hi rao is solemnly described by one of his fans as "Japan's Elvis Presley but more acceptable to us because his gestures are not so obscene." Hirao's father, who manufactures teen-age cosmetics, prints his son's autograph on every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Rittoru Dahring | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

Even for Freuchen the North could be hard. He lost a leg to frostbite and he grew his beard not because he was an eccentric but because long exposure had left his face too tender for a razor. But, he wrote, "those who have been to the Arctic always long to go back. The unrest never leaves them and they will sacrifice much to once again glimpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vagrant Viking | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

Vulnerable Spot. Then something went agley. Dody began basking in her new limelight-and looking as if she expected her laughs. She also started irritating Paar, who has a temperament as tender as a tenor's. She complained on the air that Jack wouldn't let her do the song-and-dance turns she wanted to. Once she pointed to the red light signaling silence for a commercial on Paar's desk and chirped: "Oh, I'm not supposed to talk when that's on, am I?" (Retorted Jack: "Dody, you know I told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Girl That Jack Built | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...clear about his vote for National and the loans and gifts he accepted from Old Friend Thurman Whiteside. (In two years on the FCC, Government investigators reported, Mack received $35,000 in salary and $41,000 from outside sources.) But Dwight Eisenhower stiffly told him: "You are wise to tender your resignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Crooked Halos | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...with letters last week plainly agreed with Rowan. Though rural papers split evenly over Rowan's "soul-searching" report, none challenged his facts. To one farm-belt editor who accused him of exaggerating his conclusions, Carl Rowan replied: "Sure, the truth hurts, and if I have spiked some tender toes-well, I'm not sorry. I viewed my job much like that of a doctor diagnosing an ailing patient. It would be a silly doctor who spent two hours telling the patient how pretty his teeth are, how strongly his heart beats, how good his reflexes are, only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rumpus over Rowan | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

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