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Word: eggs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thank you, dear," Santa replied with a grimace. Then he whispered to me, "My doctor says egg nog is too high in cholesterol...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Troubles in Toyland | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

...American chain in sales, as well as by Wendy's and Burger King. And to keep sales up, McDonald's has prepared still another addition to its menu, a barbecued pork sandwich, which is being tested in 65 restaurants. The firm that produced the Big Mac, the Egg McMuffin, McChicken and Chicken McNuggets has named the new pork sandwich McRib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast Food Feast | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...Egg Carrier...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Gridders, Princeton Play to 17-17 Tie | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

...himself, and in Inversions, he has created an entire book of words written in a fashion that visualizes their meanings--"calligraphic cartwheels," he calls them. "MIRROR" has left-to-right symmetry; so does "DYSLEXIA."" upside down" reads the same when rotated 180 degrees. The letters of "EGG" fit together to form an oval. "SYMMETRY" has rotational symmetry. (On the same page, neatly enough, "ASYMMETRY" has none...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Trick or Treat | 10/23/1981 | See Source »

...merely adds to the pace of a dishwasher's job. The plates still must be scraped, and the pots and pans scoured between cycles. The mechanical dishwasher never gets forks and spoons clean anyway, leaving at least an invisible film of grease, if not a yellow plastic film of egg yolk, in the trenches between prongs of the forks. The dishwasher makes you run, stooping to grab the buckets from under counters, and testing eye-hand coordination. Reaching with the left hand for not-quite-clean plates; right for dirty, so the left can pick up the stainless stell...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Working Class Zero | 10/22/1981 | See Source »

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