Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eleven National Front politicians dodged into Teheran's modernistic, $9,000,000 Senate building. Sharing their bast was a local cook, famed for his delicious tchelo kabob (tender lamb strips, rice, raw egg, melted butter), who had brought them food and now could not leave without being arrested by the soldiers surrounding the building with fixed bayonets. Twelve thousand university students surged through the streets shouting for "free elections," until dispersed by firemen with high-pressure hoses...
...These two chemicals, both extracted from the root of the barbasco (Mexican yam), are as alike as tweedledum and tweedledee. They are almost but not quite the same chemically as a natural female hormone that controls much of the menstrual cycle and helps to prevent ovulation-release of an egg from the ovary to the Fallopian tube, where a sperm can fertilize...
...work extends back ten years, during which period more than 2,000 living human ova have been studied in vitro. Our prime purpose has been to help women with their Fallopian tubes closed or removed to succeed in having children by obtaining a mature egg, fertilizing it in vitro, and then after four to six days transplanting it into the womb. LANDRUM B. SHETTLES, M.D., PH.D. Presbyterian Hospital New York City
...Egg Position. Drafted into the French army last April, Périllat was sent to Algeria. But he was back with the first snows as a member of the Alpine troops, trained by Honore Bonnet, who by no coincidence is also coach of the French national ski team. It was Bonnet, along with Olympic Gold Medalist Vuarnet, who developed the "egg position" used by Périllat and the other members of the French team. The position, a sort of high, shoulder-down crouch, is so tiring to main tain that the French team members must take special exercises...
Gelatin & Diaper. For breakfast Chimp No. 65 got an ounce of baby cereal, 4 oz. of condensed milk, cooking oil, gelatin, vitamins and half an egg. Then he was wired for recording instruments, dressed in a baby diaper and strapped on his back on a personally fitted contour couch, his arms left free. The environmental control system (air pressure, oxygen, temperature, etc.) was much the same as for a human astronaut...