Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...centuries the Indians of Latin America have wrapped their tough, fresh-killed meat in leaves from the 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...
...biggest seller of all, Adolf's Meat Tenderizer, pioneered the new method of utilizing the 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...
...creative daring in social relations' said Dr. Ferre. "They call for setting the world right side up . . . These days call for freedom to think radically, to speak radically, to work radically, to go to the root of our troubles with the daring wisdom of Christian love and tender caution of Christian concern. "No evangelism to the masses will work today that seeks mostly escape. No evangelism can be wholesome that speaks in spiritual terms alone. Today the whole man need be saved and creatively fulfilled . . . When we Methodists become evangelical we shall have a social gospel that snail make...
...Aviv, Mistress Sharett prodded anxiously at the roast of beef (frozen), which she feared might not be tender enough for the Foreign Minister's official dinner that night; in Jerusalem, Mistress Ben-Gurion summoned the sentry outside her home to help her tear the skin off a monster halibut (also frozen), which she wanted to steam with lemon sauce for the Secretary's lunch with the Premier next...
Arequipa came to think that Tia Bates was as monumental and enduring as El Misti, but last week she was dead of uremia and old age (almost 85). Indians and whites crowded Quinta Bates to mourn. Said a weeping Quechua: "She was like charapa the land turtle-hard outside, tender inside...