Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...settle or unsettle the peace of mind of men in every street in every capital of the world." The French greeted their guests with culinary reminders of what the man in the street was up against. The British delegates faced a dinner of cauliflower, spinach and ice cream. The Russians got beets, apple pie and coffee-a hotel menu to which the Soviet Embassy hastily added steak. The prudent Americans had wisely arranged for U.S. Army food...
...overall averages for the various proposals were; 1. Omission of bread at dinner, 78 percent, 2. One glass of milk per meal, 52 percent, 3. No cake with ice cream, 85 percent, 4, Reduction of meat and fish, 61 percent, 5. Desserts at dinner only, 75 percent, and 6. Substitutions for wheat cereals, 78 percent...
...which students will be asked to vote yes or no, depending on willingness to cooperate on any or all of the six measures. Included for consideration are the following proposals: elimination or breads for dinner; a milk limit of one glass per meal; elimination of cakes or cookies with ice cream; 15 percent curtailments in meat and fish supplies; removal of dessert from noon meal; elimination of all wheat cereals...
Like Calvin Coolidge's legendary preacher, Reinhold Niebuhr is against sin. But Dr. Niebuhr is no simple evangelist urging good works and blind faith; his battle with sin cuts thick theological ice. He has sawed away to such effect in his 53 years that he is generally known as the No. 1 theologian of U.S. Protestantism...
...presiding officer was neither shocked nor carried away by the incendiary speeches. Mohamed Ali Jinnah, clad in black angora cap, a long black sherwani (tunic), and tight-fitting black churidar on his wire-thin legs, smiled his ice-cold smile. He was at the peak of his power. He was the man who might say whether one-fifth of the world's people would be free. His 5 ft. 11 in. and 119 Ibs. stood between India and independence...