Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half-century since he moved from Ontario to a scrubby homestead near Alberta's Bon Accord, life for weather-lined Bill Mulligan, 62, had been hard-pressed. Old Bill and his wife Florence were a local Maw & Paw (The Egg and I) Kettle. They lived in an unpainted shack with their eleven kids. Through the hard winters they had to rip up the floor for firewood. The family's income fell so low that the boys would hire out to neighbors, then borrow the neighbors' farm machinery in lieu of wages to work their own land...
...atherosclerosis, the inner walls of the arteries become clogged with fatty material. Part of this is cholesterol, a white, soapy-feeling substance (actually an alcohol) found in all animal fats, nerve tissues and egg yolk. Some doctors insisted that the cholesterol was the villain: there must be too much of it in the patient's blood. If it were cut out of the diet, the hardening of the arteries would at least be arrested...
Steadily improving his hard-hitting game this spring, Bramhall moved from alternate number six man on the spring trip squad to a secure number three berth by midseason. Meanwhile, his powerful cannonball and twisting egg ball service were the mainstays of the second doubles...
Charles Osborne contributed two stories. The first, called "The Egg Thing," is dry and dull but the second, a fairy tale about an atom bomb that "Felt things," is well handled. Osborne's humor is subtle and he has a flair for satire...
This is easier said than done for two reasons: medical science has made it possible for men to live longer at the same time that high taxes and high prices are making it harder to save a nest egg for old age. Since the turn of the century, 18 years have been added to the average life expectancy at birth, which is now 65.5 years for the white male infant, 71 for the female; the average man (white) now 65 can expect to live to 77.4, the average woman to 79.4. The number of people in the U.S. past...