Word: tenderizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...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...
Fourth--If she had a son instead of a daughter, she would feel differently, for then she would know the REAL boy--his mind, his heart and his body, and she would know that it is much too tender an age to face the rigors of the battlefield, and to improve thereby...