Word: yolk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, while examining the yolk sacs under a microscope, he found a cluster of bacilli different from any he had seen before. When he mixed these with blood from survivors of Legionnaires' disease, he found antibodies against them in 29 out of 33 specimens, which indicated that the people had prior exposure to the bacterial strain. Tests on blood from victims of the St. Elizabeths infection-which had been carefully preserved in Atlanta in hopes of some day solving that puzzle-showed identical antibodies...
About 10% of the 53,854 royal blue and egg-yolk yellow molded plastic seats around the stadium have yet to be installed. Another 5,415 temporary seats will be added, plus space cleared for 14,000 standees, but plans to air-condition the structure fell early victim to lagging work schedules. Though the stadium has an open top, it is designed so that no wind blows on the field-ideal for the record books but not the runners and spectators. July heat could cause "the climate on the field to resemble the threshold of hell," says Larry Eldridge, athletics...
...crack the shell, then the wind would suck the omelet out. As we zinged past the telephone poles and around curves, I twisted my neck around to see what they were doing. It took each egg about a second to hit the ground, so there was a string of yolk and goo streaming out fifty yards behind our cycle. Leaving several very stringy omelets baking on the hot September asphalt...