Word: tenderizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Physicians used to treat rheumatoid arthritis by guess and by God, gave aspirin by the carload to ease the pain of inflamed, swollen and exquisitely tender joints. In the 19305 it was found that, for no known reason, injections of certain gold salts brought the disease under control. Treatment was fraught with danger of damage to liver and kidneys. But the net effect was beneficial in perhaps 40% of cases...
AMONG the incidental expenses of our Rome bureau this month were such exotic items as "orchids for Maria," "champagne and caviar for Maria" and "food for Maria's poodle." The object of this tender solicitude was Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas. Her benefactor: Correspondent George de Carvalho of the Rome bureau, who did the bulk of the reporting on this week's cover story, starting with the arrangements for the cover portrait by Artist Henry Koerner...
Normally it can be said of the U.S. marines in peacetime that their whines have tender gripes. But there was nothing normal last week about the bitter feelings of the members of the ready-for-action Fleet Marine Force and their wives and children stationed in and around Japan-except for the profound hope that the imminent arrival of Marine Commandant Randolph McCall Pate would bring relief from their painful problem. The problem: on prodding from Washington, Force headquarters had turned on the pressure to get marines to send home all dependents who had come to Japan on long-term...
...sleep, sprawl in her bunk, and talk about her husband: how tender he was, how he spread flowers around their...
Says a Los Angeles news executive: "Frankly. I do think there is a tendency in the press to be tender in handling Negro stories. But we are even more chary in using the word 'Mexican' or 'Mexican-descent.' " Says another Los Angeles editor: "Where we run into the most controversy is when we just give the names of boys involved in East Side gang fights. Then we get complaints from Mexican-American groups. We say: 'Well, we didn't say Mexican.' And their answer is: 'You don't have...