Word: tenderizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subsequent investigation by secret-agents Wyant and Poskanzer will bear out) I am only an English major. Yet the April 26th letter, by the individuals mentioned above, confuses me a little. Far from wishing to submerge myself in this blood-bath of fierce partystrife, I would merely like to tender timidly some thoughts which are in no way representative of anybody except possibly some other member of the great unwashed such as myself...
...most often been likened to Puccini. Bar for bar, he bears scant resemblance, but Menotti's tender and romantic passages in particular come to the ear with something of Puccini's melodramatic appeal. Actually, Menotti says that Mussorgsky has been more his model; he has obviously learned from both Debussy and Prokofiev, too. He seldom strays far from traditional tonality, although he often uses sharp or strong dissonance for effect...
...left halves of the banknotes will be legal tender at half their face value until April 9. Then they are to be turned in for a new currency, worth half of the old. The right halves will, "in due time," be redeemable for 3% government bonds. At the same time, the government's magical scissors also cut the Indonesians' bank accounts: half of all accounts over 400 guilders ($100), with some exceptions, will be set aside as a forced loan to the government at 3%. These operations are intended to cut sharply the effective demand for goods...
Grumpy Sam. Why Miss Hahn bothered to go after her becomes clear as she brilliantly follows prim, self-satisfied Authoress Burney through her career. The success of her first tender little bore of a novel, Evelina (1778), lifted her out of the circle around her father, Dr. Burney the music master, and into the center of the group surrounding the formidable Dr. Johnson. Fanny became the confidante of Mrs. Thrale, who was loved by the great man after his grumpy fashion. When Mr. Thrale died and left his wife free to marry, she passed Johnson by and declared she would...
...quickly made a hit with his musicians. Slightly slack after four years of guest conductors, they needed work and polishing; Golschmann gave them both without scraping their tender feelings. Says one musician: "Golschmann gets good discipline without blowing...