Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sailed on its last voyage, testified that leaks occurred regularly in spaces beneath and at the sides of the four big sulphur tanks. Recurring fires in those places had become so commonplace that the ship's officers even gave up sounding the fire alarm. Emitting a gaseous, rotten-egg stink, the fires burned on and on. When the flames were extinguished, the sulphur cooled, hardened, and caked at the ship's pumps, corroded electrical equipment, and on at least one occasion shorted out the main generator...
...down at that table young lady and eat your breakfast you're going off to school this morning whether you like it or not, the young lady drops herself into the chair as though she were dropping a dead mouse into the garbage. Then she stares at her egg as though it had hair on it. Finally she favors the cook with what is surely one of the dirtiest looks ever looked. On her, it looks hilarious. Imagine a crocodile wearing a pinafore...
...appreciate The Crucible without actually going to it (and if you haven't gone already, for Heaven's sake don't), you have to have savored a potato kugel heartburn. Potato kugel is a greasy dish made of ground potatoes, egg, and too much chicken schmaltz. Going down it is very smooth, but it keeps on insisting how good it tasted all evening long...
...racket and a pair of sneakers. While in Australia Buddy even acquired an agent-as the price of playing on television in Sydney. When he was singing at a hotel one night for bed and breakfast, the puzzled manager asked, "What does your agent get out of it, an egg...
...never made more out of less. He skitters through his best scenes like a cat in pattens. He flicks a bad line away as a zillionaire might irritably flick a pearl out of an oyster. And when he does a slow burn you could fry an egg on his deadpan. Cary should approve...