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Word: caked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience in 90 minutes; children will barely be able to recognize them before they disappear forever. Morever, such villains as the Lethargians are a thousand times more delightful than the vapid Rhyme and Reason, a pair gooey and artificial enough to have come directly from the top of a cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oz Revisited | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...report basically assumes that "A total merger of Radcliffe College into Harvard University is not desirable at this time." What it achieves is a masterpiece of how to have your cake and eat it too-Harvard will obtain co-education without changing its admissions policies, while Radcliffe will relinquish financial responsibility for housing and administration, without giving up its endowment...

Author: By Margaret R. Hornblower, | Title: Merger: Last Poker Game | 3/16/1971 | See Source »

Even the saturnine Mr. Anderson could not suppress a little grin from spreading over his face. Mr. Anderson had made up this three-leveled cake about these levels of punishment, and, well, this cake had just fallen into his lap, and not even the saturnine Mr. Anderson could stop himself from grinning with all this cake in his lap. I then informed the grinning Mr. Anderson that I would file the papers necessary for a formal appeal...

Author: By Sanford Kreisberg, | Title: Inside the CRR- The Committee in Person | 2/12/1971 | See Source »

...change from the Constructivist "avant-garde" back to Realism is dynamically shown in photos of the Competition for the Palace of Soviets in 1932. All Constructivist entries were rejected in preference to a "social realist" structure, not unlike a giant birthday cake with the crowning one candle to-grow-on in the shape of Stalin...

Author: By Meredith A. Palmer, | Title: Construct, In Russian, Doesn't Mean Carving Soap | 2/10/1971 | See Source »

...advertising pheasant and fresh caviar. At Hamburger Haven I was handed hamburgers by a waiter in a cashmere sweater and Gucci shoes (no socks). In front of the Beach Club a wedding party sang college songs and split Jack Daniel's on the tenth tier of the wedding cake...

Author: By Christopher Cabot, | Title: Intersession Back from the Bahamas | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

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