Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present-day loaf, either. Why, it won't even get stale ! Whenever the bakers of this country - excusing the independent souls in our small towns who still know what bread is - stop turning out stuff that is absorbent cotton in the mouth and lead in the stomach, bread will become once more a part of America's diet, reducing or otherwise...
...where Gourmet Bemelmans used to cook his literary schnitzel only with the finest schmalz, some of Father, Dear Father would make even Charles Dickens clutch his stomach and turn pale (e.g., "I wonder," says Barbara, "if Christ came to earth, could he get a table at Twenty-One?"). Moreover, Poppy's critical eye, which was always whimsically weak, is now rolling toward astigmatism. "It never occurred to me," he groans of Lady Elsie Mendl, ". . . that she, poor darling, was relatively destitute. She left a million . . . but it's peanuts, considering her fashion of living, her travels . . . artisans . . . servants...
...greatest department store in the world over there. Signs by the millions: Smoke this . . . Good for you . . . Good for your stomach . . . Good for your hair . . . Millions of people walking and looking at those signs...
...carrier of disease in only three outbreaks throughout the U.S., and only three minor cases were traced to milk products: one each to cheese, ice cream and eggnog. Still more surprising, only one outbreak (66 cases) involved shellfish. Otherwise, the old standbys in the spoilage and upset-stomach routine were to blame: cream-filled pastries, ham, turkey, chicken and tuna fish salad...
...papaya tree before cooking it. They never knew why. but the leaves made the meat tender, kept in its juices. For decades scientists have known why: papaya leaf and the juice of the papaya fruit contain an enzyme which breaks down protein tissue in the same way as the stomach's digestive juices...