Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then they made her take a crawling position, and took turns burning her back with lighted cigarets-not deep, just enough to leave blisters. Meanwhile another girl was throwing an egg at her face. She started to cry and they kicked her. Then they spun her around until she was dizzy and started to vomit, but the girls grabbed hold of her nose and mouth so she couldn...
...knew perfectly well what she was going to give me, but there was nothing I could do to stop her. She gave me her egg and said "Merry Christmas" and I said I didn't want the egg. She said "Don't be silly. Americans eat a lot of eggs, don't they...
While most undergraduates are enjoying the pleasures of egg-nogs, dissipation, and the usual Yuletide hilarity, Varsity basketball players will be leading a clean, athletic existence. Practice sessions will continue at the Indoor Athletic Building until Monday, when the members of the squad return to their home firesides for Christmas, but the evening of December 26 will find them convened at Cleveland, first stop on the junket...
Higgledy-Piggledy. In New Castle, Pa., Ray Walker's hen lays an egg on his porch every morning at 8:30, pecks at the door until he comes to pick...
...praise well-modulated. In the New York Times "outstanding-books-of-the-year" poll of critics, not a single book got the votes of all reviewers. The best that could be said was that 1946 furnished spectacular cash-register successes. Betty MacDonald's cackling (1945) hen epic, The Egg and I, went to some 1,200,000 copies; Peace of Mind, Joshua Loth Liebman's "blue skies" book (the trade name for a consoling self-help handbook) sold over 250,000 copies, largely on its title. A string of novels (see box), most of them with gaudy jackets...