Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...downtown New York. I began to understand why they wanted to beat up college students. They have to build buildings that no one wants, and then they have to eat lunch on the smelly, steaming tar and blacktop. Or they have to sit on concrete steps, eating a mushy egg salad sandwich about two feet from blaring car horns and smoking exhaust pipes. It they work near Fifth Avenue, they may have to watch women- the models that TV has told them to call beautiful- parade in front of them. Magazines, TV, and Fifth Avenue stimulate, over and over again...
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...accord with the rash of egg throwing currently breaking out in England, per "An Eggalitarian Education" [May 18], a fellow student and I took it upon ourselves to test the evidence presented to the public in TIME in order to corroborate the validity of the article. Consequently, we announced to the student body of our small high school that I would throw ten eggs a maximum distance onto the school's luxuriantly soft lawn. Naturally, as this was a sporting event, we could not resist taking a few modest bets from various other students who challenged our claim that...
Prime Minister Harold Wilson had just finished talking about how the rest of the world envied the British "for our tolerance, for our individual liberty, for our stability" when-splat!-a young Conservative hit him with an egg. At other rallies, the Prime Minister caught a soft-boiled egg on his shoulder and a hard-boiled egg on his ear, and his wife Mary was hit by a bag of talcum powder. So it went, as Britain plunged into a three-week national election campaign...
...least the egg throwers showed interest in the proceedings. Traditionally, Britons in June are preoccupied by far different concerns-horse racing at Ascot, the Derby at Epsom, lovemaking in Green Park, picnics on the moors and sunning at Brighton. This year, England's soccer team is defending its world championship in the tourney at Mexico City, and many voters seem far more interested in what happens there than in the June 18 vote. "I get the feeling," said a visitor, "that the two leading candidates are Bobby Moore and Nijinsky [England's soccer captain and the Epsom Derby...