Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Catchers. Except for G.M. and Ford, which crouch like two huge beasts across the road, fair buildings are low and airy rather than tall or massive. Where in 1939 France's imposing showcase rose like a grandstand beside the Lagoon of Nations, now stands IBM's egg, poised above a fantastic forest of steel trees. Across the pool, hovers the huge coffin-on-props of the Bell Telephone building, designed by Harrison & Abramovitz and Henry Dreyfus...
...interesting to note that in the photograph of Kwame Nkrumah he is holding aloft an egg. This is one of his favorite symbols, "the egg of power." If one holds it too lightly, it will drop and smash; if one holds it too hard, it will break in one's hand. Osagyefo, of course, says that he knows exactly how to hold...
...cycle starts (see chart), a woman's pituitary gland begins producing the follicle-stimulating hormone FSH, which travels through the blood to the ovaries, which contain about 300,000 follicles. FSH starts a few of these on a growth process that results in the production of one ovum (egg). Around the 14th day of the cycle, ovulation occurs: the follicle releases the ovum, which travels down the Fallopian tube toward the uterus. If it encounters a live spermatozoon on the way, or soon after its arrival, the ovum will be fertilized...
Some folks in Oklahoma City thought it was just one aggravation after another. One woman complained that her furniture was shrinking. Another said that her bra strap had snapped eight times in one day. A farmer north of town found his hens uninterested in such mundane matters as egg laying. And someone threatened to chuck a bomb at Mayor Jack Wilkes...
...experience, with its special ways and means that are constant through the years. Clocks and calendars plot out their arbitrary separations, as the womb and the tomb surge on unheeding. When o when? man asks, never knowing, ever sowing. But to hatch a bird he must start with an egg, which contains its own inflexible schedule. See man count...