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Word: caking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uncomfortable. When there are more than about nine people, you have to eat standing up. But Elsie's has good food at low prices. Spectacular food. Creme cheese and caviar sandwiches. Chopped liver. Beer Wurst. Knackwurst, Bratwurst. Wurst Salad. Just plain Wurst. Knackwurst, Bavarian oxtail soup. Danish Cakes. Cheese cake. The fast, efficient members of the counter gang have the dedicated air of European innkeepers. People who patronize Elsie's are serious about eating and only the uncouth order hamburgers. They like Cossack hats, don't laugh very much, and are of an intellectual bent. They actually enjoy standing...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: Harvard on $5 a Day | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

Blitman orders a roast beef special and cheese cake to go. The order is passed along by the counter people and finally disappears into a cranny near the big black stove. Then out of the confusion of cardboard boxes comes the special. Thirty seconds flat...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: Harvard on $5 a Day | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

Schollander sat down to his training table meal of roast beef and marble cake, and told why he has continued swimming--this is his 12th year of practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schollander, Undefeated Yale, Invade IAB | 3/4/1967 | See Source »

...relaxed with his second piece of cake, Schollander observed that former basketball All-American Bill Bradley was "too serious about everything." Schollander said he would not apply for a "Bradley-type Rhodes," because he wants to start work on the stock market as soon as he graduates from Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schollander, Undefeated Yale, Invade IAB | 3/4/1967 | See Source »

...citizenry approves a reduction in state spending on higher education and 51% favors the imposition of tuition at state campuses. Reagan himself maintains a cheerful mien, admits that he is "stingy" and "stubborn." When his staff celebrated his 56th birthday last week by giving him an "economy" cake that had a 10% slice missing and only 90% of its proper allotment of candles, the Governor could only agree that it was nice to be 50.4 again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Happy 50.4th! | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

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