Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reported total of 139 eggs, tomatoes and other missiles were thrown during the presidential campaign (not including the final week). Of these, 84 eggs, 40 tomatoes, 4 peaches, 2 lemons, 1 orange, and 1 bun were aimed at Henry Wallace. He was hit by 5 eggs and 4 tomatoes. Two eggs splashed on his plane, 2 on his auto, 2 on his train and 1 struck the manuscript he was reading. One egg and 5 tomatoes were thrown at Governor Thomas E. Dewey. No hits. One pop bottle was thrown at President Harry Truman during his parade in Indianapolis...
...Cook can't even Boyle an egg," replied his assistant. "I've been eating Brennan butter Knight and day. If I thought a Kissel improve her cooking, I'd Reilly Troy. She thinks she's DeAngelo my life, but I'd like to Kelleher...
...expected Sweden to plump immediately for full cooperation. Norwegians and Danes were looking forward to a time when, as one observer put it, Sweden's power could be folded into a West European defense system "carefully, like the beaten white of an egg into a cake mixture...
...best formulas for making a bestseller is to give a jolly account of some painful personal experience. More than 1¼ million book buyers clucked happily over Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I (TIME, March 4, 1946), which was a smiling-through-tears account of how she and husband Bob struggled to raise poultry. The Plague and I (now in its third printing) is all about how Betty succumbed to tuberculosis (in her post-Egg days) and was incarcerated in a grim sanatorium for 8½ months. A whimsical vivisection of almost every organ in the female body...
...hours' sleep. (Back in 1940 his rising hour was 4:30, but, says Freeman, "the temptation always is to sneak up a few minutes earlier.") Every activity of his day is timed to the minute, often to the second. The time allotted for cooking breakfast (an egg, toast, Thermos coffee): two minutes, 40 seconds...