Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest advance in insect weaponry came to light while a team of Cornell University scientists was studying a flightless Southern grasshopper called Romalea microptera. During egg-laying periods, when the female Romalea has its large abdomen stuck in the soil, and at other times when the grasshopper is vulnerable to attack by ants, it noisily emits from openings in its thorax a foul-smelling, brownish froth that halts predator ants in their tracks. To find out why the liquid is so effective, the scientists, led by Biologist Thomas Eisner, extracted it from several hundred grasshoppers and analyzed its contents...
Convoluted Efforts. The veterans nearly did not make it to the Mall, owing to the convoluted legal efforts of the Justice Department, which wound up with egg on its face. The week before, department lawyers got a restraining order from U.S. District Court Judge George L. Hart Jr., which forbade the vets to camp out on the Mall. A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals overruled Hart early last week, but at the Government's request, Chief Justice Warren Burger reinstated the restraining order a day later. Associates of Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, acting...
...Jobs. While he waited, Kosinski carried a foil-wrapped egg of cyanide in his pocket and kept repeating to himself, "No matter what, I am going to depart." Miraculously, his scheme worked. On Dec. 20, 1957, he arrived at Idlewild Airport, completing what he considers the greatest creative act of his life...
Aspiring rejasers can find ample tips in books like Joan Ranson Shortney's How to Live on Nothing (Pocket Books; 95?), which includes a 100-item check list for transforming everyday discards. A light bulb, for instance, makes a handy sock-darning egg. With blackboard paint, an old window shade becomes a roll-up chalkboard for children. By nailing upturned bottle caps to a board, the kids can make a front-door footscraper. These days, rejasers even dump junked cars neatly offshore: the hulks act like coral reefs, attracting fish-and fishermen...
...make abstract sculptures. On one wall, a shadow-box assemblage of coffee-can keys and lead wine labels forms a witty collage of "medals"-a spoof on Allner's many legitimate art prizes. Other elegant murals and sculptures turn out, on inspection, to be composed of Styrofoam egg cartons and packing materials that Allner particularly admires. "Besides," he wryly adds, "the foam looks better than the cracked plaster behind...