Word: tenderizer
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...some child talking about her missing daddy, a fiance mourning a wedding that will never happen or a wife aching that she did not say goodbye to her husband thoroughly enough that last time. The final love letters had been delivered by cell phone: Be brave, commanded a tender husband, take care of our daughter. I love...
...begins with the frightened little boy whose lightning-quick dance moves were reputed to stem from his skill at dodging his father’s blows. The seventh of nine children, Michael Joseph Jackson’s incredible charisma and talent were readily apparent even at the tender age of five, when he began singing with his brothers as part of the Jackson Five. After several crowd-pleasing shows, they were signed to Motown in 1969, where they began to turn out hit after hit. “I Want You Back”, “ABC?...
...modern presidency," Marton writes, her opinion bolstered by the collection of 250 eloquent, if sometimes syrupy, love letters from which she quotes liberally. "The clock is striking midnight and I must go to bed," Edith wrote in the spring of 1915 during their intense courtship. "A fond and very tender kiss my precious Woodrow before we put out the light--and I feel your dear arms fold around...
...them rotten? Is his brother Paul truly the profane white trash Sedaris describes? Could his mother have actually been that surly? Where other memoir writers, even the funny ones, slink to the sentimental, Sedaris heads the other way. And yet he portrays these characters with unjudging sympathy. He's tender about them...
...recently as 1992, traditional pension funds held 21% more assets than 401(k) accounts, IRAS and other defined contribution plans. Today these newer plans hold 15% more than pension funds, and the margin is expected to widen. With a growing number of retirees thus left to the tender mercies of financial markets, many are likely to turn to immediate fixed annuities as a haven they can count...