Word: caking
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...