Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fallout isotopes. It has a long half-life (28 years), and the human body tends to mistake it for calcium, which it resembles chemically, and to build it into bone. As it disintegrates over the years, it may cause cancer by the effect of its radiation on tender living cells...
...Ordered an aircraft carrier, two destroyers, a seaplane tender and a group of Navy planes to Ceylon to aid 300,000 people left homeless as a result of disastrous floods...
Baffling Symptoms. The medics found that the airmen, far from goldbricking, had a baffling variety of symptoms. All had high temperatures-half of them went over 100°. Nearly all had tender, enlarged lymph nodes, tenderness in the abdomen, and pharyngitis. A few were first treated as outpatients, but soon had to be admitted to the hospital. There, with no treatment but bed rest and a highprotein, high-carbohydrate diet, they unaccountably got worse. Their livers, which had been enlarged in most cases on admission, became bigger, and so tender that the airmen resisted the medics' efforts to examine...
...Real Womanliness." What Maria does give, according to Director Brooks, is something new to U.S. show business. Instead of North American sex, Maria has Central European Seele, which Brooks defines as a sort of spiritual dreaminess, interfused with girlish innocence and a tender maternal quality. They all add up to "real womanliness." Says Brooks: "Here for the first time on the screen the American man will see a woman who really understands him, who can give herself as American women have never learned to. This is the woman that American women long to be, and that American men are looking...
...ASSISTANT, by Bernard Malamud. An aging Jewish Brooklyn grocer, a holdup and a thief's remorse seem hardly the substance of a good novel. This book becomes one through its tender, realistic grasp of the meanings, small defeats and even smaller victories in the lives of seemingly hopeless people...