Word: caking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boston may be 350 years old, but it celebrates its birthday like a little kid. No Tea Party, it was ice cream and cake for 12,000 who gathered in Boston Common for the conclusion of the city's five-month Jubilee 350 celebration. Naturally the goodies were scaled to suit the town's venerability: a 2,000-lb. creamy fudge sundae and a 14-ft. by 6-ft. field of butter-creamed pound cake adorned with a 5-ft. marzipan replica of historic Faneuil Hall. The cake, a six-month construction project for Entenmann's Bakery...
Three hundred and fifty years after its founding, the city of Boston yesterday wrapped up a summer of birthday festivities by eating ice cream and a birthday cake of nearly a ton and by watching a parade of G.I.s, ex-Vietnam POWs, Cub Scouts and marching bands...
While some of the thousands of celebrants wolfed golden cake with chocolate icing, Don Leslie swallowed swords. After gulping a 19-inch sword to the gags of those who looked on, Leslie said, "The human body is built to take it. We're all potential sword swallowers...
...tough his opposition was. Earlier that day Strauss felt a surge of optimism that the pressure from Kennedy was about to be relieved. He had received word that Kennedy wanted to meet him secretly at the Plaza Hotel, and Strauss immediately called the President. "These conventions are like a cake," he told Carter. "They all have a moment to set, and I think it may be now." Responded Carter, who was more skeptical: "It seems more like an omelette to me." When Strauss arrived at the hotel, he was informed that Kennedy had changed his mind. Strauss was furious...
Andy Rooney is the Boswell of stuff. He has heard the siren call of an empty coffee can ("How can you throw away such a nice clean can with this tight-fitting top?"). He understands the disquieting dimensions of soap ("Most of its lifetime, a cake of soap is too small . . . It's not only too small, it's sharp around the edges"). And he knows why dogs are man's best friend ("The average dog is a nicer person than the average person...