Word: caking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a four-layer cake in his outer office, Chicago's Boss-Mayor Richard J. Daley celebrated his 70th birthday. To friends and newsmen he dispensed spiritual advice: "We should love thy neighbor and honor thy father and thy mother and all senior citizens." And physical: "Exercise, you know, is responsible for my good health. You should be in my basement-jumping rope, punching the bag, lifting weights. The human body will disintegrate if you don't use it." The mayor's well-rounded human body seems in no such danger, whatever may be happening...
...Boston's series, four games to two, and Boston's year. The victory cake, already three days old, was in no danger of becoming moldy...
...What do you mean "Let Them Eat Fish!" I wish I could afford fresh fish-at $1.79 a pound. I think cake would be cheaper...
...applicants' work, compared with perhaps a dozen volunteered in earlier years, to learn more than is revealed by S.A.T. scores. Gimmicks alone will not get a student into college, of course. Yale turned down-on academic grounds-applicants who had sent in an embroidered pillowcase, an apple cake and a sexy black negligee handmade of appliqued silk. At Bowdoin, President Roger Howell took a bite of a cookie made by one aspirant and grunted, "She'd better be good in class because she's not in the kitchen." She wasn't, and was not admitted...
Over Chinese seed cake and tea, the two men talked through an interpreter for 50 minutes. They did not discuss any substantive issues, but they set up arrangements for the next meeting, which will probably be held in the U.S. embassy. At the close of the visit, Huang escorted Watson back to his car. Watson in turn called Huang "cher ami," and told newsmen, "We had a very warm and friendly discussion, and we hope it is the beginning of many others...