Word: tenderize
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That view may prove overly pessimistic. Yet it was only too obvious last week that the war's psychic scars remain tender after four decades. Statesmen who try to hasten the healing, for the most laudable of reasons, must do so cautiously and with respect for the ghosts of the past. --By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett/Washington and William McWhirter/Bonn, with other bureaus
...Cocker covered this song in melodrama, which makes Green's restoration effort more amazing. Producer Willie Mitchell eschews preciousness and finds a tender little groove, while the Rev undersings at all the right moments. Green has turned trash into gold before (the Bee Gees' How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?), but this time he tops himself...
...memorial to Sept. 11 in the same way that much of the artwork and writing on it up to now has been. Extremely Loud is not a supplement to the famous photograph of a firefighter who holds a flag amidst the rubble. It is a digested, reflective, and tender reworking of what happened into an active, contemporary context...
...president, he was only—to be completely precise—the youngest elected president, winning election when he was 43. The distinction of youngest to be president actually belongs to Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, who ascended to the most powerful position in the country at the tender age of 42 after the assassination of William McKinley in 1901. Eight years later, at the time in their lives when most politicians are just beginning to hit their peak, Roosevelt was already a former president and embarking on the most fascinating and tumultuous leg of his colorful career...
Roosevelt emerges as a tender-hearted father and husband, as well as a fierce, uninhibited politician who “needed power in order to feel fully engaged.” Roosevelt was convinced that his drive to return to the White House did not stem from within, but from without. If he were given the 1912 Republican presidential nomination, he fantasized, “I should feel that there was a duty to the people which I could not shirk...