Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eggs. The White House reacted warily. "They have put one seemingly good egg in the basket with all the bad ones," said an Administration spokesman. Presidential Press Secretary Ron Ziegler noted that the proposal contained "positive as well as clearly unacceptable elements," but he added that the U.S. would never "turn the 17 million people of Viet Nam over to the Communists...
Ransom. There was no doubt however, that the Communist plan was a skillful effort to capitalize on America's weariness with an unsuccessful war. The President might be inclined to dismiss the whole package as too one-sided, but because of that one good egg in the basket - the release of P.W.s - he knows, as a politician with a sense of the public mood, that he cannot afford to do so. Less than a month ago, Secretary of State William Rogers declared: "Obviously the U.S., although we have tremendous concern for the safety of the prisoners...
...deformity, which apparently occurred when the egg that had begun to split into twins failed to divide fully, sent a thrill of terror through the Garcias' neighborhood. Superstitious peasants, who believed the child was cursed, threw rocks at the small house. A traveling circus, seeking to capitalize on the family's obvious misery, offered to buy the deformed child for its freak show. Fearful that Enrique might be abducted and sold, the family took refuge in the nearby home of a doctor...
...human language that they understand." The film's zenith is a funeral staged con brio-the spectacular obsequies of a clown, his hearse drawn by men in horse suits, his widow a clown with pendulous breasts, the orator a grotesque who maligns the deceased (suffocated by an ostrich egg at the tender age of 200) as vile and worthless...
Anyone who lives near a paper mill knows that smell-a rotten-egg, spoiled-cabbage stink that pours forth when wood pulp is cooked to produce paper. Now, thanks to a small industrial furnace company's work in Muskegon, Mich., the awful stink...