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Word: caking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Disobedience a la Thoreau: The Case of Gus Yates | 3/2/1979 | See Source »

...earlier this year ended up with a friend's birthday cake smashed on the top of her head...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Ivy Diving Champ Pam Stone | 2/23/1979 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Triangle Diplomacy | 2/16/1979 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: The Other France: Life Among the Peasants | 2/1/1979 | See Source »

Albert Kumin on his new job as White House pastry chef: "It is the icing on the cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 29, 1979 | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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