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Word: eggs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second day, I had an egg-roll, a felafel, another shish-kebab, and an egg cream with a pretzel...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Sixth Avenue, On the Greasy Side | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

...egg cream and pretzel cart. This vendor gave out a free pretzel with every 75-cent egg cream he sold. At the deli around the corner, you could get an egg cream for 40 cents and a pretzel for a quarter...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Sixth Avenue, On the Greasy Side | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

Kahn seems determined to reduce Whitney to such a paragon of materialistic virtue. Kahn turns the two "watershed moments" in Jack's life into cocktail party epics. At Groton, the reverend Endicott Peabody delivered a sermon on "the egg who just got by." During World War II, the Nazis took him prisoner. "For once in his life, he had found himself in a situations where his privileged position was worthless. He had been forced, willy-nilly, to become a common man. "While Jock's escape from the Germans was courageous. Jock seemed to view the experience more as a picnic...

Author: By Peter Kolodziej, | Title: Loaded But Human | 3/3/1982 | See Source »

...does the rate of birth defects. A woman is twice as likely to give birth to a defective child at age 40 as she was at 25 and five times as likely after 45. One possible explanation is aging eggs. A human female is born with about 2 million immature eggs, or oöcytes. Between puberty and menopause about 400 of them will mature into fertile eggs, a process that involves halving the number of chromosomes during cell division. According to theory, the older the oöcyte when it undergoes division-and in a 40-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Medical Risks of Waiting | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

These goals only touched the iceberg because when you're good you get lucky: Yale goalie Betsy Mason fumbled the puck in the crease, giving Firkins Reed a freebie at 3:36. After Yale broke their goose-egg with a power-play goal by Betsy Bradley at 5:32, the Crimson retaliated late in the period on a goal by Palmer. Right wing White finished off the scoring with her second of the game, intercepting at 14:55 of the third period...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Icewomen Destroy Elis at Bright, 6-1, Carry Five-Game Streak Into Beanpot | 2/16/1982 | See Source »

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