Word: cake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nothing's final yet, but the university has hired a well-known Boston consultant to plan a day-long river fest along Memorial Drive--complete with a laser light show projected on misty water, veritable barges of floating musicians, and maybe even a birthday cake, courtesy of local hotels...
Things clicked for Ford in his junior year when he won the mile in the Eastern Intercollegiate Seaboard Conference meet and placed second in the 500. "Our team won for the seventh consecutive year," Ford said. "It was the icing on the cake...
...that could lead to higher taxes, ! seemed the thing furthest from the President's mind, and he said so to Senate Republicans who came by the White House on Wednesday. He also emphasized his opposition to taxes as he made the rounds of Washington the next day, accepting cakes and congratulations on his 75th birthday. When presented with a cake at a gathering of political appointees, he joked about the wish he had made when Nancy had given him a cake earlier. "I blew out every candle, so there will be no tax increase this year...
...still no piece of cake. The Soviets orbited Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, in April 1961, when a new young President was getting ready to prove what a tough guy he was at Cuba's Bay of Pigs. Adding insult to injury, the news began to trickle out when John Kennedy had just tossed the first baseball of the season in Griffith Stadium, and he was eating a good old American hot dog. In the perverse ways of a frontier, the discouraging news would goad Kennedy and the country to achievements beyond their dreams...
...Special talent is icing on the cake," says Stephen J. R. Cass '87, business manager of the Krokodiloes. "We do have guys that do tap-dancing, for example, and others have very good stage presence...