Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hopes for so much from a chicken and is so dreadfully disillusioned," wrote Sherwood Anderson in 1921, in a celebrated short story titled The Egg. Anderson's melancholy view is more apropos than ever. The poor egg, already condemned by heart specialists for its high cholesterol content, was blamed in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association for yet another scourge: food poisoning. Illness due to the bacterium Salmonella enteritidis -- vomiting, stomach cramps, diarrhea, fever and headache -- has increased sevenfold in the northeastern U.S. during the past decade, according to the Centers for Disease Control. And during...
...back row and noticed that my classmates' clothes managed to touch on every color in the rainbow. Their apparel even covered a bunch of colors that usually get left out of rainbows. My eyes, when they happened to stray from the podium, caught flashes of robin's-egg-blues and dark browns, pinks and greens and yellows and ragg wool sweaters. Brights and darks and neons and dulls, splattered on everything from tank tops to overcoats...
Going into the final period Harvard led, 8-0. Boston College's Brian Stenberg removed the goose egg from the B.C. side of the scoreboard with a goal at 4:14. After an awesome drive towards the cage, Stenberg netted another...
...Holmes, commenting that its homogenization could take away its attraction. "Now that parking is so expensive in the Square, why would anyone come here if they could get the same things at a mall?" Holmes asked. "You just don't want to kill the goose that laid the golden egg...
...much of a nest egg is left? That is one of many intriguing questions left unanswered. Since gross income from investments is put at $29 million, however, the Vatican's holdings in stocks, real estate and other assets can be projected to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. There are also substantial gold reserves, though their size may be exaggerated...