Word: caked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter's 54th birthday, and the mood of celebration was upon him. Even before the birthday itself, some 1,000 of the Democratic Party faithful paid $1,000 a plate to join the President in the crowded Washington Hilton ballroom. Leaning forward to admire his multitiered birthday cake, Carter accidentally shoved a hand into the pastry, but nothing could faze him. He simply waved a dripping hand to his admirers. Carter called the affair "the most successful presidential Democratic fund raiser in the history of the U.S.," and he assured the gathering: "We're taking control...
Just as it seems they had finished cleaning up the cake plates from the Centennial celebration two weeks ago, Radcliffe administrators have already brought out the collection plates for another important part of the school's Centennial celebration...
...explained his crimes in a curious but oddly touching fashion: "What do you expect from me? I never even had a single birthday cake...
Luciani, who lived in the patriarchal palace next to St. Mark's Basilica, loved to exercise by walking or riding a bicycle through the city's streets! Jesuit Theologian Herbert Ryan of Los Angeles' Loyola Marymount University recalls how, carrying a cake in a pink box for the participants, Luciani once walked 25 minutes from his residence to the meeting of an ecumenical commission...
...test, the researchers report in Science, they alternately led each chimp off by himself into another room. There he was allowed to watch a container being filled with any one of eleven different kinds of food, such as bananas, bean cake and candy. Handed the food, he was then led back by a researcher (who did not know the container's contents). The other chimp quickly eyed the sealed container but had no idea what was in it either. The returning chimp would then press the appropriate button on the console, which would flash the lexigram for the food...