Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...housewife knows that she can get a tender steak by paying the butcher a small fortune for a fork-soft filet. She can also buy cheap bottom round and use a chemical to undermine its resistance. Chemically tenderized meats are now standard in restaurants and on many home dinner tables, but few chefs or housewives realize that the harmless industrial enzymes that make their meat tender-many of them now marketed in powder form for home use-rank with the subtlest tricks of modern chemistry...
...chemical tools; every living cell is stuffed with thousands of them, and every part of living organisms was manufactured by them. They act as organic catalysts that speed up chemical changes in cells without taking part in the change themselves. In the case of an enzyme-treated cut of meat, the enzyme simply begins to digest the meat, making it tenderer and saving part of the labor of the enzymes present in everyone's digestive juices. Enzymes, in fact...
...conference. Thus it could offer little in the way of solid assurance to the Commonwealth nations that will be hardest hit by Britain's admission to Europe: New Zealand. Australia and Canada (in that order of vulnerability), whose economies are heavily reliant on tariff-free exports of meat, grain and dairy products to the British market, from which they may be excluded by 1970. Britain's toughest opposition came from the French, whose own farmers are already hard pressed to unload their high-cost surpluses. Even in Britain a Daily Mail national poll showed 52% were against British...
...terrorists have blown up a blockhouse, a dynamite magazine, a bank, a stretch of railway near the borders of Hong Kong and Macao. An attempt was also made to destroy a Macao-Canton ferryboat, but it was foiled when crewmen discovered a tin labeled "Apricot Kernel Cakes with Meat Filling" behind a men's room mirror. It was a TNT bomb, and the passenger suspected of planting it was executed two weeks...
...cops also use dogs to help them track down criminals; one German shepherd, specially trained to sniff out narcotics, recently led officers to a cache of marijuana hidden in a meat freezer beneath ten pounds of frankfurters. The techniques are unusual-and so are the results: last year the average crime rate in U.S. cities with a population of more than 25,000 rose 2%; in St. Louis, however, it dropped a surprising...