Word: cake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exactly 2:30 p.m. every work day, Mr. George (who eats no lunch) goes through a 70-year-old ritual. He nibbles cookies and cake while he makes a "blind" test of five brands of coffee, including A & P's three blends (Eight O'Clock, Red Circle, Bokar) to make sure that the flavor of the company's coffee has not changed...
...American Coffee Corp. to buy direct from the growers in Brazil and Colombia. Still trying to eliminate middlemen, they set up their own Atlantic Commission Co. to buy the stores' produce. They started their own bakeries, candy and pastry shops to turn out everything from a $1 birthday cake to a $500 frosted reproduction of the Staten Island Ferry slip. They started new "combination" stores handling meats as well as groceries...
...dining room for a reception, he did his best to make up for his shadow's overzealousness. The Russian delegation had pointedly refrained from applause, and Vishinsky, when the President was introduced to the delegates, hesitated until the last second before shaking hands. But after a U.N. birthday cake (a rum and butter cake which bore five candles) was cut, and champagne poured, Truman walked across to the Soviet Foreign Minister, shook hands with him again and spent seven minutes in animated and obviously pleasant conversation...
...consensus: Hexameron was a six-layer cake that would never do for a steady diet, but it was fun to take once in a while...
...evening last summer, British Disc Jockey Christopher Rowland, bored with requests for a hit of the moment, If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake, flipped his Cake record over, played Songstress Eve Young's swingy version of the oldtimer. Almost at once, BBC listeners began shifting allegiance...