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Word: oreos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hungry? In Harvard Square, your food dollar will buy you anything from paella to Oreo Cookie ice cream, the only flavor in the world with a cult following. Depressed? There is a 24-hour store in the Square that markets marijuana paraphernalia, or, if you're broke, there's the Hare Krishna group that congas through the Square regularly. Bored? Some nice man, usually representing a stereo store, will hand you things to read, and when you're finished, there's a construction project, with real cranes and jackhammers and union members to watch. Wowie zowie...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Pinball, Disco, Food. It's Found in Cambridge | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...came to Harvard for frozen nirvana, you're in the right place. Belgian Fudge is one of the most popular and convenient Cambridge ice cream havens. The ice cream, hand-mixed in the Mass. Ave and Garage stores, reaches its peak in Rocky Road, Oreo Cookie, and pina colada. But it's a fat 75 cents cone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where Elites Meet to Eat, Read and Rock and Roll | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

Will young Jodie go through with his sex-change operation and marry a football player? Will Cousin Corinne continue bedding down the local tennis pro, despite hard-breathing competition from her mother? Will Father Flotsky modernize the Mass by substituting Oreo cookies for the traditional wafers? And will Soap, the new ABC comedy that features all these characters, be a TV sensation this September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Is Prime Time Ready for Sex? | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

Down Brattle Street at President Horner's house, however, supplies of candy were nearly exhausted by 8:30 p.m. Horner's husband, Joseph, handed out Oreo cookies and Snow-Caps to passing children while President Horner stayed at a friend's house for the evening...

Author: By Mark J. Penn and Gay Seidman, S | Title: Bok's House Ignored on Halloween | 11/1/1975 | See Source »

Then there is the myth of the homesick. While typing out a 20-page paper in the sterile gloomth of his monastic room, with its poster less walls and chill dampness, this student becomes lost in visions of refrigerators crammed with roast beef and coke, cupboards overflowing with Oreo cookies and cinnamon buns, trays filled with chocolate candies and salted peanuts (and perhaps marmalade candies if it's Passover). A late night movie starring Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy is on the living room television as the student fixes himself a salami and cheese sandwich with a pickle...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: The Wrongs of Spring | 3/27/1975 | See Source »

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