Word: caking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cliffie loves sweets, but attacks her favorite foods discreetly. If a half of a cake is left over she will cut herself paper-thin slices "almost to make believe I'm not eating" until the whole thing is gone. At home she picks away at icing irresistibly, even though her family gets enraged at the "mothholes...
...they moved down from the ramps, they were steered straight onto chow lines, where cooks from the German-based U.S. Seventh Army had a total of 20,000 piping-hot steaks and tons of French fries ready. At Rhein-Main, outside Frankfurt, one mess sergeant baked a 200-lb. cake in the shape of a tank...
KING JAMES 7:8 Ephraim is a cake not turned...
...pace. Her dispatches home, most of them decorated by the Journal with three-column glamour portraits of the author, were breathless with excitement and punctuated largely by exclamation marks: "Rome looked swell in the late twilight!" "Those Italian military uniforms are wonderful!" "I loved Italy, but Greece takes the cake for magnificent beauty!" "The Near East reeks with romance!" "Just think-tomorrow I'll breakfast in Basra, lunch in Bahrein and have my dinner at Sharjah...
...Behold are Fielding's favorite characters, and Richardson makes frequent and gloriously funny use of them. His actors catch the spirit of the thing from the first scene, and they have a picnic. The characters are rumbustious caricatures. Joyce Redman is a soggy old piece of cake. Finney is Tom clean through-a fine strapping country boy whose heart is in the right place even when his foremost interest isn't. But Hugh Griffith is the man to watch. A tankard in one hand, a buttock in the other, Squire Western superbly defines a type not quite extinct...