Word: caking
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...appointed Portland's Ralph Harlan Cake, Oregon Republican national committeeman, as his preconvention campaign manager...
...Willkie is nominated, Cake will at once become Republican national chairman. A grey-haired, lively, amiable man of 52, Ralph Cake has a deceptively easygoing manner. President of Portland's Equitable Savings & Loan Association, onetime president of the U.S. Savings & Loan League, he has shown himself to be a shrewd, hard-driving lawyer and businessman...
...every color of the rainbow and a few besides. She dreams (amid dry-ice mist and nacreous space) of getting a magnificent blue dress in which Mr. Milland paints her portrait-a cruel caricature of her old-maidishness. She dreams (in white and gold) of climbing a gigantic wedding cake while vast choirs shout her praises. She dreams (in candy colors) of a circus which turns into a trial, with a gibbering jury of freaks and clowns. In spite of some Freudian symbols which may make a few cinemaddicts jump, these dream sequences are not very dreamlike. But as production...
...will merely enumerate those courses which we did not get: creamed celery soup with croutons, baked squash, head lettuce with Russian dressing, hot rolls, chocolate nut cake, assorted fruits, candy, nuts, cigarets, tobacco...
Robinson and his four staffers are as casual about battle dangers as a weekly's reporter covering the Sunday-school cake sale. Sample reportage: "Staff Sergeant Oscar Duebec pulled the pin from a grenade he was about to hurl with his right hand when he was wounded in the left hand. Perplexed, he decided to walk to the aid station, keeping the grenade immobilized by continuing to grasp the lever in his right palm. Anxious medics hurriedly stitched the wound, whereupon Duebec walked back . . . relieved everyone by chucking the grenade into enemy positions...