Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cake makers flesh out their doughy lines with ice cream (often served on waffles), eggs, chicken, hamburgers, all accompanied by unlimited quantities of coffee. All this is enhanced by the loganberry-purple prose of the menu. Sample: "Persian Pancakes, delicate egg batter crepes rolled and filled with strawberries and peaches. Garnished with smooth rich whipped cream. As exotic as a visit to the Pearl of the Orient...
...Fehsenfeld blocked the doorway of Dizzyland with his own bulk. The demonstrators knelt on the sidewalk, prayed and sang. A crowd gathered to jeer the Negroes and cheer Fehsenfeld. Inspired, Fehsenfeld kicked a few demonstrators, picked up a Negro girl and dragged her away from the door, smashed an egg on the head of a white demonstrator...
...Cherokee called them jew-wedge-du-gish (literally, "the egg eaters") because, to avoid breaking kosher rules, they lived almost exclusively on hard-boiled eggs while on the road. Unlike town merchants in the South, the Jewish peddlers cultivated Negro customers, entered their names respectfully in ledgers as "Mr." or "Mrs.," extended them credit, and let them try on clothing before a sale. The Jews were rarely greeted with hostility. Bible Belt fundamentalists believed they were the living witnesses to the Old Testament. Often one was asked, "Are you a Methodist Jew or a Baptist...
...compact car "parking ("I thought it was your head, but it was only the steering wheel.") That dur- able dart board, the First Family, was treated quite well with a song about "Young Love"--Caroline was just "the girl next door" whom George Connolly met at the Easter egg roll...
...Egg & a Smile." Cole does not pursue these estimates as carefully as he should. How many prisoners of war, for example, did Laval actually get repatriated, and at what cost in French workers sent to Germany? He concludes, however, that Laval tried honestly to do what he claims, though he did not succeed any too well. Laval was a skilled bargainer. "You ask Laval for a chicken," grumbled German Ambassador Otto Abetz, "and he gives you an egg and a smile." But Hitler was in a position to get pretty much what he wanted and eventually...