Word: caked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other raffle, of entire girls, "was not organized to titillate," Diorita C. Fletcher '71, president of East House, said. The seven winners of the raffle, who paid 25 cents per ticket, were greeted with a smile and a cup cake. "It's fraud!" cried one dejected winner. "I didn't even get a kiss," he said. The cupcakes were selling earlier for ten cents...
...sugar, meat and flour up in smoke. Rations were cut again and again, finally falling to half a pound of bread per day for workers and only two slices (about 150 calories) for children. Citizens grew accustomed to eating library paste, boiled leather, and bread baked with cottonseed cake, even sawdust and cellulose. Cats and dogs swiftly disappeared. Any stray horse was likely to be set upon and butchered on the hoof by starving citizens. In the final stages of the famine, parents kept a close eye on their children lest they be kidnaped; the "meat patties" that were sold...
...inaugural planners wrestled with last-minute snags, the President-elect journeyed by Air Force Convair to Northampton, Mass., to celebrate his birthday with Daughter Julie and her new husband, David Eisenhower. The birthday dinner was a chicken casserole with broccoli and cheese, followed by a store-bought chocolate cake with 56 candles. Pat gave him a pair of cuff links -"All his cuff links were torn off in the campaign," she explained. There were ties, socks and handkerchiefs from Tricia, and from his staff a small bronze statue of an Irish setter in token of the dog they plan...
...Everett Dirksen's 73rd birthday, and the Illinois Senator opened the romp and circumstance by dipping into a voluminous chocolate cake. Then Ev marched his guests in to inspect his latest joy: the kidney-shaped heated indoor swimming pool that he and his wife have built at their Leesburg, Va., home. Both Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew stopped by to pay their respects, and unlike the pool-dunking days of the New Frontier, not a soul was dampened in the drink. "But it was still a fun party," reported Mrs. Dirksen. "The two elects and the birthday boy proposed...
...traveling to new unexplored continents for the first time, editorialized the New York Times, a source of information we've come to know in the past year to be consistently misleading in the most subtle of ways. And shortly after they splashed down, the astronauts were given a big cake in the shape of a history book...