Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grandma Marlene damned Hitler and his works so roundly that many Germans still believe she is downright anti-German. Marlene's impending return created a spate of mumbling in the West German press. She shrugged it off: "The only thing I'm really afraid of is eggs. I have a swans-down coat, and if an egg ever hits it, I don't know what I'll do. You couldn't clean it in a million years...
...error, variations from the normal are showing up in more and more inborn defects. Dr. Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith of Johns Hopkins reported that in Mongolism, where an extra chromosome has been found, the anomaly appears to be the result of a failure in subdivision, traceable to the maternal egg. In a wide range of sex abnormalities related to hermaphroditism. the number of chromosomes may range from 45 to 48. Among the anomalies, "super females" with three X (female) chromosomes, and a variant with three X chromosomes and one Y (male...
Died. The Rev. W. H. (Bill) Alexander, 45, strapping, red-haired pastor of Oklahoma City's egg-shaped First Christian Church, onetime chaplain of the Republican National Committee, who ran for the U.S. Senate in 1950 and lost to Democrat Mike Monroney; when his twin-engined plane crashed into a milk truck at Camp Hill, Pa., also killing his wife Marylouise, 36, and their pilot...
...Jewish tailor, Jacobs began with the only racers that could find moving room in New York City: homing pigeons. In 1926 he tapped his pigeons' nest egg for $1,500 to buy a nag named Reveillon. Two years later, he struck up an alliance with Shakespeare-spieling Isador ("Kid") Bieber, a onetime Broadway ticket scalper famed for his big bets (he won $60,000 by backing an underdog incumbent named Woodrow Wilson...
...Egg-Shaped Fireball. The success cautiously announced by Dr. Tuck was achieved by Scylla, a cylindrical chamber about 30 inches long in which deuterium is squeezed by a sudden magnetic shock. The squeeze produces an egg-shaped fireball about 0.8 in. long containing five times 1016 (50 million billion) deuterium nuclei at a temperature of 13,000,000°C. It lasts about 0.9 millionth of a second, and spits out about io million neutrons...