Word: yolk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Easter time in 1884, the Czarina received what at first glance looked like an ordinary hen's egg, but the shell beneath its white enamel was of gold. Inside it was a golden yolk, and inside that a golden chick. In the chick's stomach was a model of the imperial crown, and inside the crown was a tiny ruby egg. It went over big. "Next Easter," the Czar informed Fabergé, "we'll be wanting another surprise...
...incubator. As the embryo grows, the cancer grows too. The embryo's blood vessels turn aside to supply the cancer, which frequently grows until it is nearly as big as the chick. Drugs are tested by injecting them into the egg yolk, and noting through the window what they do to the cancer...
...proudest idea was a new egg ("The yolk will be made of smoked meat, the white, of compressed rice, and the shell, of synthetic lime ... It will be delicious"). Under his remorseless hand, builders labored for half a century constructing pavilions, terraces, bridges and lakes. And still, he was never happier than when giving help to others; e.g., telling his tailor how to cut trousers, his tobacconist how to roll cigarettes, his banker about the banking system of the medieval Florentines...
...device that cleans and sterilizes an egg, breaks it, removes the contents, separates the yolk from the white, and throws away the shell...
...Kingsblood, dentist and solid citizen of Grand Republic, Minn., had summoned the family to a conference. Ranging from oldsters to younglings, but all equally curious, they assembled "beneath the pictures of the Pilgrim Fathers and sleigh-rides and Venice, sitting on the imitation petit-point chairs, on the egg-yolk-yellow couch, on the floor, looking at one another and at souvenir ashtrays and an Album of the New York World's Fair." When they were settled, Grandpa Kingsblood informed them in a trembling voice that his son Neil had something on his mind "which he will now confess...