Word: caking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daley's Chicago worked financially, supporters like to say, especially in comparison to New York. Indeed, the mayor was an adept fiscal manager and the city is solvent. But observers are wrong in attributing that to some magic on Daley's part, some ability to have his cake and eat it too--to satisfy labor and management, black and white, rich and poor, and keep taxes down at the same time...
...Bowl XI, and the same lady-with whom he also saw Super Bowls IX and X-will join him for the game. But they will be hurrying back to New York City; the following Saturday afternoon, Jay Rosenstein and Tanya Drake will be married. The design on their wedding cake? A football field, of course...
...Kings scored the only goal of the third period, a Sullivan from Morse and Harword that put the icing on an easy-to-bake cake...
Before the Yale game, at the final team dinner of the season, when Puopolo rose to make his statement to the team, as is the custom for each senior, he said that winning the Yale game would be for him merely frosting on the cake. The cake itself, he said, was simply playing on the team. From someone else it might have been no more than a lofty phrase, a platitude. But for Andy Puopolo, as anyone who knew him could testify, it was the simple truth...
Glueck added that when each senior spoke to the team about his four years at Harvard before the Yale game, Puopolo said, "Winning the Yale game is just the frosting on the cake, because as a member of this team I already have my cake...