Word: tenderizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tender spots in my lower back felt the final ten minutes of treatment from needles so fine that they never broke the skin. The finishing touch: he held a smoldering root, known as moxa, above the treated area to induce relaxation...
...always screeching things like, "It's the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the father in us is only a hack." Harrison diagnoses in Rich a "fossilized moral imagination," parochialism, whining, polemicism, and a penchant for boring the reader. She says "the tender conscience and the tough mind alike are confounded by this diatribe." Making a plea for intellectual generosity and open-mindedness, Rich's rhetoric leaves no room for a more complex truth. It's refreshing to hear one feminist speak of another with more candor than piety...
Despite the pseudoscientific hokum, a vital ingredient to roman a la King, Firestarter- a bestseller weeks before its official publication date- is the most realistic, even credible novel he has written. Andy McGee and Charlie come across as tender and courageous victims; even some of the stooges, notably a half Cherokee named John Rainbird, show complexity and charm. Though he is not an elegant writer - he is addicted to such objurgations as "You blind, obsessive fools" - Maine-based Stephen King is a superb plotter with a fine eye for terrain and, indeed, pyrotechnical detail...
...team traveled Wednesday to Haverford to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the nation's first inter-collegiate soccer match. In June, the men's heavyweight crew defeated Yale in the 115th renewal of the oldest intercollegiate athletic competition. Some time in November, the University will reach the not-so-tender age of 345. Ah, to be old--and first; two honored Harvard traditions...
...waiting lists of up to four years for their matchless weapons. Over most of the 3 million arid Highland acres, where Lagopus scoticus breeds and feeds, the birds are the only source of income for the lairds. The owners' expenses can be considerable. Since grouse exist only on tender heather shoots, the lands must be burned over once a year to provide new growth and must be patrolled constantly to protect the young birds from predatory varmints. Moreover, the castles and stately mansions have become horrifically expensive to heat and maintain. However many brace of birds (the British, like...