Word: yolk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another case, a mother began giving her daughter whopping doses of multiple vitamins when she was only three weeks old. The baby also got one egg yolk every day; soon, she got vegetables generously doused with butter. The diet added up to an enormous oversupply of vitamin A. Now nine years old, the girl has a right leg almost three inches shorter than her left...
...lullabies. A woman's place, as Dylan never ceased to tell me in vain, is in the bed or at the sink, and the extent of her travels should be from one to the other and back . . . Even if in reality her yielding shell contains a hard-boiled yolk of mercenary ambition, she must serve up her garnished egg at the table of male delectation, all a-shake and atremble with soft-boiled, running-over compliance. It means that the stress must insistently be on the symbols of femininity: bust, bum, legs, lips...
Torches guttered, decorous demands were spurned. The only injury (a leg almost squished between two insolent chariots) was as crippling as the single egg yolk splattered on Mass. Ave. One freshman turned to run, but he was nabbed by an Argus-eyed research fellow...
...Mimbo. Durrell seems to lend his animals the qualities of far-out British eccentrics. There was the egg-eating snake which absorbed the yolk and white, regurgitated the crushed shell. There was Bug-Eyes, the needle-clawed female lemur, who daintily dabbed at her petal-thin ears with a drop of her own water as if applying perfume. But the most colorful character in the book is not an animal but the Fon of Bafut, a royal hedonist with a joyous appetite for women, dance, song and drink, in the form of tumblers of Scotch, gin and mimbo, the native...