Word: caking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lunch break came near noon. Downstairs, the ladies of the local nondenominational church were collecting $1.50 a plate at a spread featuring baked beans, meat pie, green bean and onion casserole, goulash, breads and cake. Then the meeting reconvened...
...third time this winter, Harvard triumphed in front of a boob-tube audience. For the first time ever, Bill Cleary won his 100th game as Crimson mentor (plus a cake to go), and Tim Taylor returned to Cambridge as Yale's new hockey coach and did as well as Yale's old hockey coach...
...continues the next morning, when children wake to find chestnuts under their pillows. Because the Chinese word for "chestnuts" sounds similar to the word for "fame," eating the nuts is believed to bring a noteworthy career. The children also receive a plate containing oranges to keep the family together, cake to bring them happiness, and candy to bring them a sweet life. Parents also give their children money in red envelopes, which they are allowed to gamble or spend as they like on New Year...
...backyard of his New Hampshire home? The BSO marathon, by coincidence, offers an analogous plethora of outlandish non-musical premiums for the generous and non-musical, musical and daring, non-daring and generous pledgers. Two one-hour flying lessons with Joseph Hearne, BSO bass player, for $200; chocolate rum cake baked by BSO violinist Ronan Lefkowitz '75 for $25; a doubles tennis match against violinist Sheldon Rotenburg and horn player Ralph Pottle...
Certain terms, of course, may become quaint, but will always be irreplaceable. Pound cake will remain just that, no matter how many grams the ingredients weigh. A miss will never be as good as a kilometer; no Texan is likely to wear a 38-liter hat. In some cases, neither form of measurement matters much. The day that hell freezes over, whether it happens in Celsius (0°) or Fahrenheit (32°), it will still rate a TIME cover...