Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peter Kurd's open-air portrait of his daughter Carol glowed with paternal warmth and offered a modern object lesson in the egg-tempera technique of the Renaissance masters...
...associates made a gadget like a child's swing, put an egg in it, and swung it against a steel plate. When the egg was free to move (like a passenger with no safety belt) a very slight shock broke the shell. When held tightly, the egg survived harder shocks. When cushioned with rubber in front, it lasted even better. The hardiest eggs were snuggled against a cushioned block that slipped a little when the swing hit the steel, allowing the egg to come to a slow stop. It took a powerful shock to crack such a coddled egg...
...fine. Roy Acuff fiddled The Great Speckled Bird, with his Smoky Mountain Boys backing him up in good old stomping mountain style. Carroll Reece flapped out his long tongue, grabbed a fiddle, and got in the act. But when Reece grabbed the microphone and started to speak, a rotten egg sailed out of the night. It hit him in the back. Two tomatoes, another egg, and a lemon spattered down. Acuff was hit in the side with a grapefruit...
...sympathizers. North Carolina's Governor Gregg Cherry condemned the mob's conduct. President Truman denounced it as "highly un-American." Mississippi's Governor Fielding Wright, the Dixiecrats' vice presidential candidate, urged all Mississippians to behave. In Greensboro, N.C., Judge E. Earle Rives sentenced two teenage egg-throwers to write over & over: "I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it." The nation's press, including the South's, lectured on the right of free speech...
...Greensboro, his egg-spattered car was greeted with another shower of eggs and tomatoes. Some struck his head and shoulders, splotched his white shirt. Boos drowned out his attempt to speak. Cried Wallace: "The faces I have seen distorted by hatred are of people for whom I have in my heart profound compassion, because most of them have not had enough to eat." The crowd laughed...