Word: tenderized
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...victim, 'You've nothing to fear from me as long as you surrender your purse and walk away without creating a disturbance.' The U.N. has not come to Korea to surrender. We have no intention of walking away . . . and leaving the South Koreans to your tender mercies...
...JUDGE'S private life is, to an extent, exclusively masculine. His relations with his father, who died some years ago, were tender and mutually understanding. The bonds in the new generation repeat the pattern of the old. When Judge Medina and his sons are together, the ladies of the three households leave them to their own mysterious dimension. His friendships with men are touched with high seriousness. While the rest of the family are at the beach, the judge, who does not like surf bathing, will play golf or, on rainy days, a game of billiards. Next...
Barnhouse is under no illusion that his canned services can or should "supplant the living voice or the tender heart of the pastor." Even where there is no pastor, he says, "there has to be a devoted layman . . . The whole secret of this thing is audience participation...
...respectable, cultured, well-behaved and poised, proud, quiet and refined, clean-minded, meek and immaculate, delicate, tender, bighearted, lovable, unselfish, unspoiled, generous and ambitious. I don't gossip, I'm not vengeful, don't gamble or drink, have rare dexterity, am supermundane, possess savoir faire. I'm perspicacious, perceptive, euphemistic, strong, healthy, idealistic, make my own clothes, hats and bags, do my own hair, cook and love music...
...British lion, which had seemed mangy and moth-eaten in Iran, put on a show of bared fangs that stunned the Egyptians. British Tommies, not overly tender with their bayonets, picked up Egyptian officials who were making trouble and booted them out of the zone. As the 40,000 Egyptian laborers who served the zone installations faded away, British tanks rumbled into neighboring villages and herded laborers into British-run camps. Said the British: they were not running press gangs, merely giving "safe conduct" to the workers...