Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pipeline. Sterilization operations for men and women are based on the same strategy: cutting the tubes that carry the sex cells on their paths toward junction and conception. In the woman, the Fallopian tubes−through which the egg cells travel from the ovaries toward the uterus−are hidden in the pelvic cavity of the lower abdomen. Before recent technical advances they were relatively difficult for the surgeon to reach. In the man, a tube called the vas deferens (literally, the "carrying-away vessel") arises from each testicle to carry the spermatozoa to the prostate gland where the seminal...
...purpose of the academic fad, Willson explained, is to determine under what conditions a thrown egg will break. "For example, we can try and find out if the eggs break more easily when thrown onto grass at different angles or when spun. Now that the children's interest is aroused, there will be no stopping the questions." He was right. When only two of the 23 eggs thrown at Willson broke upon hitting the grass, his pupils were incredulous. "My mum won't understand this experiment," said a 13-year-old girl. "She is always dropping eggs...
Insatiable Headmaster. England's egg-throwing mania began in February at Carr Mill Junior School in Lancashire after Headmaster Douglas Appleton proved to his students that they could not break eggs by pressing them between their hands. Soon the children were throwing eggs from the school's second-floor windows. Eggs that hit the concrete were smashed, but those that fell on the lawn were undamaged. Says Appleton: "The excitement and wonderment were intense...
Elephant Bird. Responding to the U.S. challenge, the Daily Mail arranged for Cricketer Freddie Trueman to bowl eggs before the thrilled pupils at Carr Mill. With stumps set up for added authenticity, Trueman sent one egg after another whizzing down the cricket pitch at 90 m.p.h. Remarkably, only a few broke. To keep up with its Fleet Street competitor, the Daily Express hired a Piper Aztec to drop five dozen eggs at 150 m.p.h., dive-bombing over an airfield near Carr Mill. Three dozen remained unbroken, leading the school's headmaster to remark: "The ancestor...
Egged on by all the activity, one Carr Mill lad has compiled a list of 60 puns containing the word egg (eggsperiment, eggshausted, eggcetera). Others are learning egg statistics (record number of eggs eaten at one sitting: 47) and making a large model of the egg of the extinct elephant bird. Says Headmaster Appleton: "In this school, it is eggs with everything...