Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heinrich K. Erben of Bonn University's Institute of Paleontology bases his theory on a treasure trove of dinosaur eggs unearthed near Aix-en-Provence in Southern France. So many fossilized egg fragments were found there that Erben concluded that dinosaurs had used the site as a regular nesting place for thousands of years. Using a scanning electron microscope, he determined that the average thickness of the eggshells in the lower or older layers ranged from 1.7 to 2.6 mm., while the shells in the younger layers were only about half as thick. Such fragile eggs could easily become...
...great cross-section of occupations is represented as well; antique dealer, an egg salesman, a grocery store owner, a hermit from the backwoods, a clown, a few auto mechanics, a few hell's angels, ballet dancers, policemen, the works. The photographers have haunted such honky tonk spots as Revere and Nantasket Beach, and Paragon Park. They have sunk into the ghettoes, slunk into back stage dressing rooms, and escaped into meat markets, barber shops, auction barns, trailer parks, fields and kitchens, as well as their friends' homes...
Every morning, before he sits down to his regular 8:30 breakfast (bean-paste soup, rice, a raw egg and seaweed), he sees as many as 300 businessmen, politicians and other assorted petitioners. They gather in the public wing of his house and wait to be ushered in for brief audiences with Tanaka. The new Premier's 19-hour days do not permit much leisure; aside from golf, his chief pastime nowadays is the art of calligraphy. He rarely socializes at night, preferring to spend his evenings with his handsome wife Hanako. When he married...
Democratic National Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brein's ruling that 1433 delegates and not 1509 would constitute a majority in deciding the California challenge came as a comfort to McGovern forces, except that by yesterday, the whole California question had become a chicken and egg type of problem. The 1433 figure would undoubtedly be challenged by stop-McGovern forces, yet who would vote on what the majority of those eligible to vote was to be? And who was eligible to vote in the preliminary rule voting...
...role as Brigitte Bardot's unhappy husband in her first major movie, And God Created Woman. BB walked away with the picture, but Trintignant walked away with BB. Their widely publicized affair simmered for three years, until Trintignant got a draft notice. He swallowed large quantities of egg white in a desperate attempt to induce an albuminous condition and get a medical deferment, but the army inducted him anyway...