Word: vinegar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the European Economic Community's eleven years of existence, no member has poured more vinegar into the wine than France. Last week, as the Common Market prepared to take the historic step of eliminating all remaining internal tariff barriers, the French acted according to form. Faced with a worsening balance of payments problem, Charles de Gaulle's government marred the milestone by announcing a protectionist package of import quotas and export subsidies...
...Feder, now at the National Institute of Health, synthesized a different salt to use in the centrifuge in which ribosomes would be stable. It took some detective work to decide what that salt should be, but finally they succeeded. Their salt, made from cesium and, in substance, similar to vinegar, preserves ribosome structure, at least. This by itself is a major success because it should allow studies on animal ribosome structure, which up to now were only possible with the more stable ribosomes from bacteria...
...First Lady are traditionally as dulcet as the ladies' favorite dessert of peppermint mousse. When Mrs. Lyndon Johnson invited 50 women "doers" to the first of a new series of campaign-oriented repasts devoted to national problems last week, she did not anticipate a side order of vinegar from one of her best-known guests, Negro Entertainer Eartha Kitt...
Surveyor's dramatic recovery overshadowed another space venture involving 1,000 vinegar gnats, 1,000 flour beetles, 560 wasps, 120 frog eggs, 875 amoebae, 13,000 bacteria cells, 78 wheat seedlings, nine pepper plants, 10 million spores of orange bread mold and 64 blue spiderwort. All this was packed aboard a space ark called Biosatellite 2 and launched into earth orbit from Cape Kennedy...
...turn salicylic acid into acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin), a compound related to acetic acid is used. If the raw aspirin is then cleared of impurities by washing with water, any remaining water will react to create a minute quantity of acetic acid-vinegar. This accounts for the vinegary odor and some of the irritating effect of much fresh aspirin and of most old aspirin. So Bayer uses a more costly, water-free process...