Word: tenderizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Writer Waterhouse has done his real work beyond easy symbolism and easier outrage, in the Dickensian world of created character. He is what a writer should be, no pamphleteer but a patient and compassionate exhibitor of the tender and grisly oddments that find themselves locked up, helter-skelter, in the strange rag-and-bone shop of the human heart...
...there was method to their masochism. Jacques Lacarrière, a French historian who spent some time in surviving desert monasteries, has written a tender, subtle account of the hermits. Their existence, as Lacarriere unfolds it, was not so strange as it seems at first glance; and it was perhaps a reasonable alternative to the world they left behind...
...farther than the distance from living-room sofa to TV tuning dial in years. For these, the brisk uphill pace, over boulders, across the brooks and fallen trees, was arduous going. By the time they sprawled out for lunch, on ledge rocks by a waterfall, blisters were rising on tender feet...
Also headed for a varsity slot may be the Yardling goalie, Bill Fitzsimmons. This year's goal tender, Brandy Sweitzer, departs with graduation, but if Fitzsimmons wants the position be will have to outshine several J.V. goalies and Wade Welch, the second man on the varsity...
...Blood Knot, by Atholl Fugard, links two South African half-brothers in a fierce, funny, tender, scalding love-hate relationship. Though both are sons of the same dark-skinned mother, one brother is white and the other is dark...