Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since Neanderthal times. For Americans it is the last flush card of the New Deal. "We're really happy. Our kids are healthy, we eat good food and we have a really nice home," say Mom and Dad. The statement is as matter-of-fact as a fried egg...
Doctors predict that in a matter of years they will be able to remove an egg cell from a woman, fertilize and grow it as an embryo in a test tube, and then implant it in the mother or even in the uterus of a volunteer, where it will continue to develop until delivery...
...them eat cheese, suggested Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz when complaints about meat prices reached him. Now he has a new suggestion: eggs. Decked out in a chefs toque emblazoned P.F. (for Plentiful Foods) he confidently launched a Butz omelet before admiring department employees. "Anyone can do this," he announced as he shuffled his skillet like a galloping gourmet. He was so right. The omelet was lumpy and overcooked. Next try was better, and for his efforts the show-off chef was granted membership in the National Good Egg Club...
...went at 16 to the University of North Carolina, where he developed a lifelong fondness for poetry (favoring Tennyson, Kipling and Shakespeare) and a knack for memorizing it. Always a hearty laugher, especially at his own jokes, he was elected president of his senior class and chosen its "best egg...
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