Word: livers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...living organism, each one contains the same number and kinds of genes, the heredity-bearing components that determine the nature of the cell. But since the genes are identical in all the cells, why do some of the cells form hair, while others go to make up heart, liver, brain and so forth...
...cell were active in controlling the production of enzymes that gave the cell its characteristics. The remaining genes, they proposed, were deactivated -turned off by mysterious represser substances produced by other genes. Thus, the genes that are active in a hair cell may be turned off in a liver cell, where a different combination of genes is active...
...overlaid with green sawdust and the cramped cooking area is about as immaculate. Elsie's is uncomfortable. When there are more than about nine people, you have to eat standing up. But Elsie's has good food at low prices. Spectacular food. Creme cheese and caviar sandwiches. Chopped liver. Beer Wurst. Knackwurst, Bratwurst. Wurst Salad. Just plain Wurst. Knackwurst, Bavarian oxtail soup. Danish Cakes. Cheese cake. The fast, efficient members of the counter gang have the dedicated air of European innkeepers. People who patronize Elsie's are serious about eating and only the uncouth order hamburgers. They like Cossack hats...
...beside him and slides her thigh against his thigh. When he stammers, she strokes his lips and invites him to "do the thing" right there and then, and never mind the other passengers. When he refuses, she leaps to her feet and screams: "You middle-class black bastard, you liver-lipped white man, Uncle Tom Big Lip!" In a black rage, he slugs her and then vomits all over the subway car his lifelong bellyful of hatred against the white man and all his works. When he subsides, the dame stabs him dead...
Twenty of the patients died, some within 24 hours after entering the hospital. Autopsies revealed crippling damage to the heart muscle and also the liver. Searching for some common denominator, Drs. Yves Morin, Andre Tétu and Gaston Mercier found that they all drank an uncommon amount of beer-a Rabelaisian average of twelve quarts...