Word: caking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lots of ice cream and watermelon and I'd open up all the presents and blow out the candles on the big red, white, and blue birthday cake and then we'd all sing "Happy Birthday" and "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy." At night everyone would pile into Bobby's mother's old car and we'd go down to the drive-in, where we'd watch the fireworks display. Before the movie started, we'd all get out and sit up on the roof of the car with our blankets wrapped around us watching the rockets and Roman...
...fields of New England are the creation of civilization. "Humanized environments," writes Dubos, "give us confidence because nature has been reduced to the human scale, but the wilderness in whatever form almost compels us to measure ourselves against the cosmos." He argues that man can have his environmental cake and eat it too. With careful management, nature can be not only preserved but also improved upon...
Crimson captain Mike Desaulniers etched his name into the annals of collegiate athletics with another string of successes. Besides finishing his career without losing a single match, Desaulniers did not drop a single game this season. And to ice his immense cake, he copped the USSRA individual laurels and defeated the legendary Sharif Kahn in the spring...
...puritan midsummer's holiday." In 1681, when President Oakes perished shortly before Commencement, the authorities seeking a sober ceremony felt compelled to restrict students to a provision of one gallon of wine per man. Despite that one prohibitive graduation, the tradition of imbibement was propagated, climaxing in the "Plum cake scandal" of 1693, when kill-joy President Mather outlawed the tainted pastries, deeming the custom "dishonourable to the Colledge." Needless to say, in spite of various fines imposed by Mather, the tradition survives in one form or another...
...planning to hold a birthday party for the universe, you'd better put fewer candles on the cake--nine billion instead of 15 billion...