Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrats, having been out in the cold for eight years, are so confident that they are cautioning each other, as Lincoln once said, not to "cackle until the egg is laid." With Viet Nam over and factions muted by quieter times as well as party reforms, no serious ideological issues divide the Democrats. Now, as Mark Siegel, a Strauss aide, observes, "there's a desire-it's almost a lust-to come together and win. Most of us hold ourselves almost personally responsible for eight years of Nixon and Ford...
...possibility of going to Washington with him. He wore blue jeans, and as he loped through his plantings of grapes and sweet potatoes and peach trees, he was trailed by two of his three daughters, Betsy, 17, and Kathy, 13. He pointed out the old pump house, soundproofed with egg cartons, where his son Charlie practices with his rock band, called Pumphouse & Company. "I would never pick up and leave Georgia," he said. "Besides, after I get through talking to Jimmy for an hour, I'm all talked...
...insect's life cycle is also an asset to its survival. Many insects are completely metamorphic, passing from egg through larval, pupal and sometimes suspended stages before developing into full-fledged adults that can then mate and start the process all over again. This enables them to take advantage of a wide variety of food supplies. Insect fecundity is frightening. Many species lay hundreds or thousands of eggs after each mating. Some pass through their entire life cycles, from egg to adult, in a matter of days or weeks, producing dozens of generations a season. This gives them an enormous...
Bushnell has also made several tests of his torpedo. It is a watertight oaken container, shaped like an egg and large enough to hold 150 pounds of gunpowder. The explosive can be detonated by a gunlock connected to a clock. Bushnell's plan is to have the Turtle attach the torpedo to an enemy warship by night and then escape before the explosion. At one demonstration of a model torpedo for Connecticut officials, Bushnell reported that the explosion produced "a very great effect, rending planks into pieces and casting stones, with a body of water, many feet into...
...woman who wants to be chic starts by having her hair stiffened with perfumed animal fat; the hair is then whitened with powder and molded over an egg-shaped wire frame usually 2-to 3-feet high. For daytime outings, this concoction is decorated with ribbons, feathers, flowers, birds' nests or vegetables. After entertaining eleven young women recently, a London hostess boasted that "they had, amongst them, on their heads, an acre and a half of shrubbery, besides slopes, grass plots, tulip beds...