Word: tenderized
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While passengers on the Queen Elizabeth lined the rails before dawn to cheer them off, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and wife Mamie boarded a tender, headed for Cherbourg dockside. At a breakfast reception in the customs shed, the general drank a champagne toast with Cherbourg's Mayor Edmond Soufflet, recalled that his arrival this time had been considerably easier than his Normandy landing more than six years ago, added seriously: "With God's help, and with all of us working together, we can keep peace." The general then boarded a plane for Paris and his new duties...
...twelve oils on display were done since Muccini's marriage last fall to a girl named Leda. Marriage takes money, so Muccini has stopped being "self-unemployed" and started working "almost hard." Hit of the show was his violet-toned portrait of Leda, a study both tender and exact. "I like to paint women," Muccini observes with a frown, "because of the great, curious attraction they have for me." He is little more articulate about his second favorite subject: "The bull attracts me as a theme in that it is always associated with a wall...
...word "love" runs like a refrain through Bouche's conversation; it is implicit in his art. Humility shapes his art, too. The fact that he can never match the overflowing vigor of a Rubens or a Picasso does not bother him. He is content with painting quiet, tender little pictures as beautifully...
...companion to Fitzgerald's writings that "The Far Side of Paradise" is most worthwhile. For one who has read little or no Fitzgerald, the book is neither interesting nor instructive. But if it is read in conjunction with "This Side of Paradise," "Tender is the Night," "The Last Tycoon," and a few of Fitzgerald's magnificent short stories, the result is a true biography...
...Department of Agriculture once advised chicken raisers to dose broiler pullets with the synthetic hormone stilbestrol. The drug stops the growth of ovaries in pullets, turns them into the fat, tender female equivalent of capons, which fetch a premium price...