Word: tenderize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much the seven guys who are there, but a couple who are not. Captain Jeff Campbell graduated, Rock Moulton--who nailed down the IC4A win by closing with a dramatic kick--is taking the year off, and worst of all, junior Peter Fitzsimmons is nursing a pair of very tender knees. Fitzsimmons has been all-Ivy the last two years, and he has always been at the center of what McCurdy calls the intangible factors so important to cross-country success. A Harvard team without Fitzsimmons will have a tough time against the East's top teams...
...ironic that Keenan the academic should find himself engrossed in the trials and tribulations of the academic market. It is a market with which Keenan has never known any problems. The specialist in medieval Russian history was given the unofficial nod for a tenured appointment in 1968, at the tender age of 33, only two years after he received his Ph.D., and joined the Harvard faculty...
...fisherman's Congressman," he sponsored the bill that extends exclusive U. S. fishing rights to 200 miles off the coast Thus Massachusetts seamen no longer have to compete with better-equipped foreign trawlers for the dwindling supply of flounder, cod and haddock. Appropriately, Studds boarded the buoy tender Bittersweet for the annual blessing of the fishing fleet off New Bedford-and also to remind his audience that he had cleared the waters for them...
...takeover battle now going on is the struggle for control of Babcock & Wilcox, New York-based maker of steam-generating equipment and builder of nuclear power plants (estimated 1977 sales: $1.8 billion). Early in 1977, when the company's shares were selling for $35, Babcock management rejected a tender offer from United Technologies Corp. of $42 a share for all its stock; opposition continued when the offer was raised to $48. Last week Babcock accepted a bid from J. Ray McDermott & Co., a New Orleans-based firm best known for its production of oil-drilling rigs...
Playing Mudbone, the levee-tender, or Oilwell, the "dangerous nigger" who fights the cops, he lets the humor build up gradually as the audience understands the character he is impersonating-or is possessed by. "What Lily and I do transcends stand-up comedy crap," he boasts. "We make it theater. We involve the audience in truth because everything we do is real. Both of us are possessed when we are onstage. Yes, man, I'm talking literally. Possession...