Word: egges
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...Eggs. The White House reacted warily. "They have put one seemingly good egg in the basket with all the bad ones," said an Administration spokesman. Presidential Press Secretary Ron Ziegler noted that the proposal contained "positive as well as clearly unacceptable elements," but he added that the U.S. would never "turn the 17 million people of Viet Nam over to the Communists...
...deformity, which apparently occurred when the egg that had begun to split into twins failed to divide fully, sent a thrill of terror through the Garcias' neighborhood. Superstitious peasants, who believed the child was cursed, threw rocks at the small house. A traveling circus, seeking to capitalize on the family's obvious misery, offered to buy the deformed child for its freak show. Fearful that Enrique might be abducted and sold, the family took refuge in the nearby home of a doctor...
...human language that they understand." The film's zenith is a funeral staged con brio-the spectacular obsequies of a clown, his hearse drawn by men in horse suits, his widow a clown with pendulous breasts, the orator a grotesque who maligns the deceased (suffocated by an ostrich egg at the tender age of 200) as vile and worthless...
Anyone who lives near a paper mill knows that smell-a rotten-egg, spoiled-cabbage stink that pours forth when wood pulp is cooked to produce paper. Now, thanks to a small industrial furnace company's work in Muskegon, Mich., the awful stink...
...latest advance in insect weaponry came to light while a team of Cornell University scientists was studying a flightless Southern grasshopper called Romalea microptera. During egg-laying periods, when the female Romalea has its large abdomen stuck in the soil, and at other times when the grasshopper is vulnerable to attack by ants, it noisily emits from openings in its thorax a foul-smelling, brownish froth that halts predator ants in their tracks. To find out why the liquid is so effective, the scientists, led by Biologist Thomas Eisner, extracted it from several hundred grasshoppers and analyzed its contents...