Word: tenderizers
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...Vinson rites, the President had a tender embrace for Mrs. Vinson, a brief handshake for Harry Truman, who was also among the mourners. By midafternoon, Ike was off again for Denver, ordering the Columbine's Pilot William Draper to pour on the speed. The President had a personal reason for urgency: his son, Major John Eisenhower, was due to land in Denver at 9 o'clock that night, after 14 months in Korea. Ike got to Denver with 2½ hours to spare...
Some good reading that could easily be lost in the whirl is Giovanni Verge's Little Novels of Sicily (Grove). Verga, who died in 1922, was one of Italy's great writers, and these strong, tender stories of life at its most universal levels are among his best. After Verga, Frenchman Gil Buhet's The Innocent Knights (Viking) may seem like Gallic fluff. Actually, it is a charming story about a gang of schoolboys who shut themselves up in a moated ruin until their unjust elders and schoolmasters are ready to treat them like human beings...
...built a boy-meets-girl idyll around the notion that dreams may be shared though the dreamers be continents apart. In Love-o'-Women and On Greenhow Hill, he managed to rate love higher than etiquette; and in Without Benefit of Clergy he actually sang a tender hymn to miscegenation...
...playing the game, bearing the white man's burden, and being kind to animals. To prevent shortsighted swallows from colliding with overhead wires, for exampie, bird lovers festoon the telegraph lines with wooden bobbins, visible a mile away. Last week the lowly barnyard hen was the object of tender British solicitude...
SHIP AHOY! YOUR WONDERFUL JULY 27 ARTICLE, "DESIGN FOR LIVING," TOUCHED A TENDER SPOT IN A SAILING ENTHUSIAST. WHEN MY WIFE, TWO DAUGHTERS, DACHSHUND AND I SET SAIL ON OUR 18-FT. SEAGULL, "SCHORR-NUFF," THOSE WE LEAVE BEHIND PROCLAIM US NUTS. TIME HAS PRINTED THE TRUTH. WE ARE LIVING. THOSE LANDLUBBERS ARE NUTS...