Word: egg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successful blend of imaginative showmanship, lofty prices and aspiration to high cuisine. Waldorf System, Inc., is a somewhat different chain of restaurants. Its 83 cafeterias, drive-ins and pancake houses in eight states lean heavily on self-service eateries in poor locations, offer such dishes as hash and an egg for 65?. Last week, in a deal that will produce an unusual corporate goulash, the two chains announced plans to merge...
...settled in remote Welsh seaports like Tiger Bay. Then, when a large number of dark-skinned Asians, Africans and West Indians began flocking to Britain in the early 1950s, the British at first consoled themselves with the thought that these tropical people had only come to earn a nest egg, and would return to buy a trawler in Barbados or a camel in Karachi...
...Broken Egg. The Israelis tried hard not to gloat. Bourguiba's plan was no more acceptable to them than it was to the diehard Arabs, for Israel rejects any meaningful territorial concessions and is unwilling to take back masses of Arab refugees who might become a fifth column. Deputy Premier Abba Eban scornfully referred to the U.N. partition plan as a "broken egg" that could not be put back together again...
...Made egg-heads roll enmasse...
...nature has worked things out, a woman secretes a moderate amount of estrogenic hormones during the first ten or twelve days of her menstrual cycle. At about the time she ovulates, releasing into her Fallopian tubes an egg ready for fertilization, her output of estrogens rises sharply. Had it been at this higher level all along, she never would have ovulated. Soon after ovulation, estrogen output declines and there is a sudden increase in a different hormone-progesterone, sometimes called "nature's contraceptive," which prevents ovulation until the next cycle...