Word: caked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wild rumpus begin!" rallied Bok And so began the Cambridge officials trade against Harvard's expansionist real estate practices. From the stuffed filet of sole entree to the Queen of Sheba chocolate cake, councilors were unrelenting in their criticisms during the closed meeting...
...resolution to one of the longest-running town-gown conflicts is positive in that it will put some much needed rental units back on the market. But the way in which Harvard went about getting its cake and eating it too smacks of hypocrisy...
What makes the collection unique is its remarkable organization. A card catalog indexes all pictures by assignment, subject, quality of the print and pose (full face, profile, smiling, shaking hands). Cross-references note the backgrounds in each photo, as well as peripheral people and prominent objects: a birthday cake, a motorcycle, a puppy. Even so, some objects slip through the indexing net. Last fall photographs were sought for a Living story about a particular Swedish ivy on the White House Oval Office mantel. There was no index listing for the plant, and hundreds of White House pictures...
...purple van from Ridgewell's ("caterers to the elite") pulled up and tuxedoed waiters hopped out to unload leftover canapes, whole hams, mounds of crab claws, shrimp and quiche. That night at the shelter, 1,000 homeless dined like lobbyists. Though the gesture smacked slightly of "let 'em eat cake" largesse, Mitchell Snyder, director of the District of Columbia Community for Creative Non-Violence, which runs the shelter, was heartened by the heightened public concern. "Four years ago this wouldn't have happened," he said. "Americans now know that there are lots of people out there suffering...
...next stop, a woman named Frances Wisner, a south Texas telephone operator who settled on the river in 1940, sat waiting with her German shepherd under a lean-to. She wore more layers than a high-society wedding cake. She gave Ray Arnold a meat-loaf sandwich, a cup of steaming coffee and a piece of her mind. She said it might help the federal deficit if they placed higher taxes on every soft drink but Coca-Cola, which she drinks, and every candy bar but Milky Way, which she favors. Around them, gathering dusk turned...