Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing is better calculated to keep dollar-laden American tourists away from a foreign land than the prospect of uncertain comforts. Even business men tend to shun outposts where the hot water runs cold, the cold water may be undrinkable, or the food too bacterial for tender Western stomachs. Nearly a score of underdeveloped countries have overcome the problem of sleazy accommodations - and so bolstered their economies - by turning to Inter-Continental Hotels Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pan American World Airways...
...Yardley Chairman T. Lyddon Gardner, 62, second generation of the family to head the firm and patriarch of a third generation coming along the company's ranks. Last week, after huddling with Yardley's bankers, N. M. Rothschild & Sons, Gardner urged stockholders to ignore BAT's tender offer. "We are going into battle," he vowed. "I don't see any connection between tobacco and perfumery...
...alone that can delight me. His graceful eye it doth invite me, And when his tender arms enfold me, The blackest night doth turn today. Tame Coyotes. Beers's grandfather taught him to play the psaltery, but his real ambition was to be a concert violinist. He played with the St. Louis Philharmonic at 15, later graduated from Northwestern University as a music major. Only then, noting among other things that he was one of the world's few psaltery players, did he realize "that my inherited knowledge of folklore was something extraordinary. Suddenly I felt an obligation...
...work for Walt Disney? The cartoon person?' " Carol assured her that Disney did indeed do other things besides cartoons. Later, Julie got a telephone call from Poppins' author, Pamela Travers. "P. Travers here," said P. Travers briskly. "Speak to me. Can you be tough? Can you be tender...
Naturally the result is flawless. Director Arthur Friedman gives us a Pooh that is moving, tender, light, and at times bursting with social import. Friedman establishes in the course of his entertainment an extraordinary communion with A.A.'s thought patterns; it is as if the man himself were reading his stories aloud...