Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...electrical activity can still remember. He believes that the brain has some "static" method of storing memories. Perhaps changes in the synapses (nerve endings) between the neurons build up a pattern of information. Then, when the brain wants a bit of information, it may "scan" the synapses electrically and extract the knowledge it needs...
...Jones discovered Freud's writings as a brilliant young practitioner in the safe sun of the Edwardian era. He reacted as though he had found the elixir of life. He mastered German to extract the full flavor of every word, and introduced psychoanalysis to a shocked England. Orthodox physicians (in the Freudian phrase) ventilated their aggressions on the pioneer analysts...
Despite this knowledge, dozens of attempts to make and sell commercial meat tenderizers made from papaya had little success, for the simple reason that users could not control the reaction. Most of the tenderizers were liquid solutions of papaya extract. Housewives soaked the meats until they tasted as if they had already been "digested"-which they had. But last week meat tenderizers in powder form were one of the fastest selling items in U.S. stores...
...papaya enzyme. Its promoters, two Hollywood ex-servicemen named Lloyd Rigler and Larry Deutsch, first encountered it in a mixture prepared by Adolf Rempp, a Los Angeles steakhouse chef whose steaks were unusually tender. They bought his formula for $10,000, worked out a way to blend the papaya extract with ordinary salt, which could be sprinkled evenly-and in visible amounts -on the meat. Rigler and Deutsch went about the U.S. inviting jaded food editors, who were cynical about all such preparations, to try theirs. In surprise, the editors began writing enthusiastically that "it really worked," made a cheap...
...Russian government believes it must make concessions, it would rather dress them up in conference form than as preliminaries to a conference. The ritual of bargaining is important to the national honor. The country that gives in likes to go through the motions, at least, of trying to extract concessions from the victor...