Word: tenderized
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...ceded by a burst of flame, it roared out of a 146-ft. concrete-lined hole at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Since it carried a dummy second stage, it flew for only 140 seconds before it was deliberately "destructed" by radio command. But it proved that even comparatively tender liquid-fuel rockets, which are heavy weight lifters, can take off from a "hard" base that promises resistance to enemy attacks...
...three bowling alleys in Baltimore, and is so well fixed in stock holdings that he'll probably come out of this league a millionaire. Or the Colts' Gino Marchetti, owner of a string of hamburger hutches; Alan Ameche, proprietor of six restaurants; and Tommy McDonald, at the tender age of 26, is a director of an Oklahoma bank and also gets a handsome sum from a Southwest bowling alley just for the use of his name...
...displayed excellent control of its vigor and contrasts. The Choral Society contributed six delightfully cool and sweet songs by Schumann, the chorus maintaining an airy tone and a group of soloists spun an intricate, but occasionally ill-balanced, texture. Three choruses of Haydn ended the concert on a tender, almost sentimental note. They were, indeed, typical of the evening: sometimes erring in treatment, but often technically excellent...
...Hamburg for minor surgery last month, Sheik Abdullah Al-Jabir As-Sabah, 65, Justice and Education Minister of oil-rich Kuwait, received tender loving care from a 19-year-old secretary, casually married her, quickly got a telephone squawk from one of his three other wives. But by last week, the contrite ("It was beyond my control") sheik was back at his palace near Beirut, had shucked his German bride of ten days and placated his complaining spouse with gifts among them a $10,000 diamond ring. Neither action came hard. The divorce was his 27th, and the baubles were...
...TECUM FILUMENA. The presence of a glass phial containing the remains of what was assumed to have been blood, together with certain symbols (two anchors, three arrows, a palm and a flower or torch), was interpreted by archaeologists as proof that the remains were those of a martyr. Her tender age led to the assumption that she was a virgin...