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Word: caking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each job has been different, but the pattern remains the same. On the first day of work, I find I have been given a special duty not described in my contract, like graverobbing or defusing bombs. On the second day, I learn the first day was a piece of cake. It goes downhill from there...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Those Back-to-School Blues | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

...activists celebrated Bok's proletarian late-night snack as a wonderful ironic twist on what they might term his let-them-eat-cake attitude toward their activities, the University president and his cohorts were certainly not as happy...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Let Him Eat Pizza | 9/6/1986 | See Source »

...feed the alumni, Harvard Dining Serviceswill cater dishes from beef and veal to coldcucumber soup. On Saturday night, alumni living inthe nine river houses will get a special treat:shrimp cocktail, roast beef bernaise and GrandMarnier chocolate cake...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Organizers Pay Meticulous Attention To Details and Campus Appearance | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...Ernest Hemingway's mother mailed him a chocolate cake. Along with it she sent the .32-cal. Smith & Wesson revolver with which Hemingway's father had just killed himself. Hemingway dropped the pistol into a deep lake in Wyoming "and saw it go down making bubbles until it was just as big as a watch charm in that clear water, and then it was out of sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Quarter-Century Later, The Myth Endures | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...sleek body of the bomber passes through a succession of signs denoting the good life and ways of defending it; a bubble of air from an Aqua-Lung regulator mimics the burst of a nuclear cloud, over which is set an umbrella; the hole in a frosted ring cake suggests a missile silo; a chillingly winsome little blond muffin sits precociously under a hair dryer, whose gleaming cone evokes the nose of an ICBM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Memories Scaled and Scrambled | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

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