Word: caking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After three days of intense hiking and climbing, the 23-year-old geology major was ready to eat a hearty dinner. What he and the other prisoners got instead were three dill pickle spears, a bologna sandwich, re-warmed canned hash, three-day-old stale cake and cold milk. Not allowed to eat any of the food he'd brought in his backpack, Yates eventually went to sleep on a mattress mounted on a steel lathe platform, without sheets...
...earlier this year ended up with a friend's birthday cake smashed on the top of her head...
...recognition of Vietnam, one of which was the effects that it might have had on the developing relationship between us and China. But I think to read history of the last two years fairly, we did take certain steps and the Vietnamese essentially were trying to have their cake and eat it, too; and I think they missed the boat...
...newlyweds sneak away at midnight, but the dancing and partying continues unabated. Finally at about 7 a.m. all the young people pay a visit to the new home of the Bride and groom, bursting into their bedroom and making them drink a vile concoction of hot chocolate, champagne, wedding cake, and toilet paper, all neatly contained in a chamber...
Albert Kumin on his new job as White House pastry chef: "It is the icing on the cake...