Word: tenderizers
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...large gold crosses atop the Kremlin churches. "There is a symbol I never expected to see here," he said. "I hope it has meaning for the future." Russian tourists, gaping at paintings of Jesus Christ in the Kremlin's Cathedral of the Assumption, equally astonished him. "A tender, moving thing . . . Never, never did I expect to find this in the Kremlin...
When austerity-minded President Arturo Frondizi predicted last January that "a lowering of the standard of living is inevitable," the warning could hardly be heard for the sounds of high living. Over street fires, outdoor laborers at noonday broiled tender chunks of marbled beef that cost 8? a pound; white-collar workers lunched in restaurants on 17? beefsteaks so large they overlapped the dinner plates. Sundays brought an outdoor churrasco (barbecue) that began with meaty ravioli, went on to beef broiled over a pit fire...
...works were shaken during a German air raid. One morning last week, when its hands stood at 11 o'clock and its sonorous bell, nicknamed Big Ben after Sir Benjamin, boomed the hour (in E below middle C), Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and other parliamentary dignitaries gathered to tender happy 100th anniversary greetings to Big Ben and its dependable companion...
...forgot that the first two letters of the military spoken alphabet have been changed to -'Alpha" and "Bravo." The impersonal names were chosen to ameliorate the wrath of professional animal lovers, but Monkey Baker, a furry, cuddlesome item, also picked up the unofficial laboratory nickname of TLC (for Tender Loving Care). Monkey Able was born in Kansas, a fact that NASA hopes will still a few cries in India, where her relatives are hardly less sacred than cows...
...Vassar girl. I never went to school a day in my life. I was raised, if you wish to call it that, in vaudeville, going from town to town, playing with musicians, acrobats, dancers, even freaks. Some were nice, some tender, some vicious. Many were genuinely bigtime, and you knew it the moment you were with them. Others were simply small-time human beings-petty, meager-minded, whiny, changing from week to week as we traveled from town to town...