Word: tenderizers
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Viet Nam spawned in the American mind a strange combination of tender, outraged sensibilities and deep callousness?an exaggerated sense that everything was wrong and an almost truculent indifference to things that really were dangerously awry. That was a measure of its divisiveness. BRING THE WAR HOME, the radical graffiti said, and sure enough, the Ohio National Guard shot down four Kent State students one spring afternoon as the allies moved into Cambodia...
...prospect of four years at the mercy of Richard Nixon loomed to black politicians and black people in general on the bleal: noon of his inauguration, was the fact that they had no guarantee that had Humphrey been elected, they would now be anything more than at his tender mercies once he had taken the oath of office. Essentially, this was the realization that despite Humphrey's personal reputation as a champion of black causes and the similar, if less impressive, reputation of the national Democratic party, blacks had failed to elicit from either anything save the same vague promises...
Aranda, Chalandon's former press attaché, began preparing the latest revelation after Chalandon lost his job last July when Pompidou forced Chaban-Delmas to tender his resignation. Chalandon asked Aranda to go through his correspondence and sort it out. Aranda did, and made photocopies of documents he considered compromising to Gaullist bigwigs...
...viewers each week, Yorkin and Lear have it. They are the best in their field, and we wanted to tell our readers who they are and how they operate. In the telling, I might have hoped for a better writer. But I couldn't have found a more tender, sympathetic editor...
...Gold and Silver Operations. "It would certainly be an illegal activity for the 99.9% of us who have no Government authorization to deal in gold." Traditionally, the Government has feared that any form of U.S. ownership of monetary gold might lead to an alternative-and possibly preferred-form of tender, thus weakening the dollar. The threatened gold war between investors and the Treasury may eventually have to be settled in the courts...