Word: yolks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their blood, and some of these have been carefully followed and lab-tested for two years or more. This diet is not extreme or hard to follow, since it may include as much as two ounces of fat a day. The doctors exclude butter, cream, fatty meat, egg yolk and cheese. However, they let the patients have skim milk...
...home in her stately Westminster Palace, seemed perilously close to entering her second childhood. The first symptoms of retrogression became apparent as ultra-Conservative Sir Herbert Williams gawped in ruddy embarrassment at the wreckage of a broken egg lying before him in the House of Commons, its slithering yolk merging relentlessly with the green of the carpet. "Is it in order, Sir." a Labor member was demanding of the Speaker as Sir Herbert stared, "for an honorable Member to throw an egg across the floor of the House...
...time. Russia's Easter eggs are his proudest creation. Fabergé turned out his first as a surprise for Alexander III's Czarina. At a glance, it seemed to be a plain chicken egg of opaque white enamel. But inside, the Czarina found a glittering yolk of gold, and within the yolk a gold chicken. The chicken opened, too, and there the Czarina discovered an exact replica of the imperial crown, perfect to the last detail. Alexander was so pleased that he immediately gave a standing order for a surprise egg each Easter. When his son Nicholas...
...Hofstra College in Hempstead, L.I., the Crown and Lance fraternity planned its "Hell Week" hazing with care. After a nod of approval from their faculty sponsor, the fun-loving brothers daubed the heads and bellies of seven blindfolded pledges with a noxious mixture of ketchup, mustard, egg yolk and water. The pledges promptly broke out in skin blisters ; one got a badly burned eye. Suspecting that heavyhanded undergraduates had fouled up the recipe with lye or turpentine, the interfraternity council decreed that Hofstra will hereafter have no hazing...
...Cookies: 1½ cups sifted flour, ¼ teaspoon each of soda, salt, vanilla; 1½ cup each of butter or shortening, and brown sugar; 1 egg; 1 egg yolk; 1 egg white; ⅛ teaspoon maple flavoring; 1 cup pecan halves. Sift together flour, soda and salt. Cream butter. Add sugar gradually, then egg and egg yolk; beat well. Add flavorings. Add dry ingredients gradually; mix thoroughly. Arrange pecan halves in groups of three on greased baking sheets to resemble head and hind legs of turtle. Mold teaspoonsful of dough into balls. Dip bottoms in egg white and press...