Word: tenderize
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Staying physically active is a good idea, especially for kids, but too much exercise can be harmful to young joints and tender muscles, particularly at the team-sports level. In the first Internet survey of injuries, sponsored by the CDC, researchers recorded 2.4 injuries for every 1,000 practices or competitions. That's why Little League Baseball, for one, instituted new pitching rules for the 2007 season. Kids 10 years or younger have to stop after 75 pitches, and anytime a Little Leaguer throws more than 21 times, he has to give his arm at least one day to recover...
...Victoria into a big, bulky but very secure foot and ankle brace. At three weeks she was a little less tender but definitely not better-so back in she goes and I'm now the bad guy-no recital. Her mother is sharp, though; I don't have to threaten with crutches and operations to get her on board with me on this. And Victoria comforts me when I say I'm sorry about keeping her out of dance for another three weeks: "It's ok-It's nice to be home in the afternoon. I read and play games...
...ones on the outer edges of the mainstream, are classics of the future - movies like David Gordon Green's George Washington, Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl and Lodge Kerrigan's Clean, Shaven. Ramsay's 1999 story of a boy's troubled childhood in Glasgow in the 1970s is tender and harrowing at the same time. The disc includes three of her short films, two of which won prizes at the Cannes Film Festival...
...swiping his name and bogus website to climb onto the gravy train. Then Dan takes one risk too many by sneaking Little Plum into a banquet, just so she can experience delights like sea cucumber and "minced pigeon breasts with mashed tofu molded into tiny snowballs, sprinkled with tiny tender green scallion flakes." Writes Yan: "He can't bear to think of her spending her life as their neighbors do, with so many omissions; a life blank as if unlived." But by now, the police are cracking down on freeloaders like Dan, and he gets his just deserts. Soon enough...
...named genre—calling New Jersey part of the “heartland” raises both geographic and normative issues—popular in the early to mid-1980s, is usually defined by down-home folks like Springsteen, Tom Petty, and John Cougar Mellencamp: artists who wrote tender blue-collar tales of broken American dreams and perseverance over folksy rock backings, not maudlin anecdotes over bubbling synth lines...