Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vallee and his associates, together with scientists at the University of Washington, in Seattle, revealed that they had isolated and purified a protein that promotes angiogenesis. More important, they had cloned the protein's gene, a step that could ultimately enable scientists to produce the substance in large and pure quantities. While other angiogenic factors have been identified in the past, their genes have never been cloned...
...multiplicity of national standards within Western Europe alone forces Philips, the Dutch electronics company, to manufacture 29 types of electrical outlets, ten kinds of plugs and twelve varieties of cords. West Germany has a law dating from 1516 that prohibits the sale of beer made from anything but pure water, malt, yeast and hops. The rule originally gave Germans protection from adulteration, but now it serves mainly to keep out foreign beers, like Heineken and Carlsberg, that contain other grains or preservatives...
...impression that we may be the villains of the piece and that they're the good guys." State Department officials insist that Soviet rhetoric has not been backed by concrete proposals. Said one top analyst: "We haven't seen anything in their hints that is different from a pure propaganda campaign...
...again Christian band drew crowds that sometimes equaled the 100 or so people present at the reading. Just a few a steps past further away, 1000 people gathered to protest the American military presence in El Salvador. While young academics and older artists gathered about the poets for the pure enjoyment of art, the various shades of baby-boomers flocked to the competing events searching, one imagines, for "self...
...event was the appearance of Garrison Keillor. And his performance did not fall short. Keillor read naturally, repeated sections as he saw fit, and, without being condescending, made sure the audience followed along. Ironically enough, however, it was a "product," Keillor's celebrity status and his new book, not pure appreciation of the spoken word that had to be "sold" to attract people to the event...