Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joys are unalloyed any more in an increasingly self-critical age. The cigarette, the fried egg and the bacon, the automobile, the toy with lead-based paint - all have been judged to be as pernicious as they are pleasurable. Now the boom has fallen on the economic boom. Time was when the word connoted something unqualifiedly positive, as in "booming industry" and "boom times." But because a boom all too often leads to inflation and then to bust, Data Resources Inc., an economic consulting firm in Massachusetts, has set up a "DRI Boom Monitor" to alert subscribers when a healthy...
...THERE I AM, it's 8:15 p.m., boiling in my tuxedo and drenching my underclothes and my throat is so dry you could fry an egg on it. Right next to me, Howard O'Brien is fingering this little brown Vicks lozenge and I whisper in his ear and he gives it to me. I just let it melt slowly in my mouth and try to time it so there's still a little juice from it left when it's actually my turn. You can tell everyone's in top form--there are no goofs in the readings...
Holy Cross would not register a goose egg for the rest of the game, as six Harvard pitchers had as much luck in retiring the side as they had in minimizing their now astronomical ERI (as in Earned Run per Inning...
...century--of a century--of quill pens and ink--ink--ink pots, yes, yes, yes, they tell me--ahm m m--that you, that you write in short." This went on in the public street, while we all waited, as farmers wait for the hen to lay an egg--do they?--nervous, polite, and now on this foot now on that...
...vaccine will entail some risks. The new vaccine will not be effective against other known flu strains. Also, some Americans could develop strong allergic reactions to the egg-grown vaccine. But for the overwhelming majority, the only aftereffect of the shots will be nothing more than a sore arm-"a small price to pay," says Ford, "for this vital protection...