Word: caking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pennsylvania mushrooms, California asparagus, Texas broccoli, Louisiana sweet potatoes, Florida tomatoes); salad (artichoke stuffed with avocado, South American water chestnuts, water-lily roots, papaya); mousse Tropicana (a scooped-out Temple orange, frozen solid, filled with ice cream, chopped figs, dates, California walnuts and Brazilian nuts); pia-pie Brazil (sponge cake and fresh pineapple...
...Wine & Cake. There were rare intervals of crazy humor. Lieut. Vincent Kelley took a group into one building, killed two Germans and found a bottle of German Army issue champagne. The Germans at once counterattacked with 75 men and chased the small band of Americans away. "It couldn't have been the house they wanted," Kelley solemnly observed. "It wasn't worth a damn any more. They must have been sore about losing that champagne...
Lieut. Bill Morris and his men were driven from a gully. Too late, Morris remembered that he had left behind his pack with a fruit cake just received from his mother. Next night he led a patrol back to the gully, found the fruit cake, still uncut, lugged...
...Hollywood last fortnight the bloodhounds were baying at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's heels. Bounding from ice cake to ice cake, the harassed studio finally made the Ohio shore, stopped only long enough to drop its baby in the river...
...Ralph Cake was sickly in youth, but he followed Teddy Roosevelt's example, fought his way to health on a ranch. He started his own political career only in 1940 when his old friend Senator Charles McNary persuaded him to become a candidate for national committeeman. Oregon elects its national party committeemen by popular vote. Cake stumped every county in the State, won by a vote almost as large as that of his three opponents combined. Father of two, he likes to read history and biography, hunt deer and bear in Oregon's Cascade Mountains. National Willkie headquarters...