Word: peaches
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...instance, they invented an order of leaping nuns who would jump on trampolines to get closer to God. In their knockabout revue Good Evening, which ran almost continuously for five years, they constructed an imaginary restaurant buried deep in the Yorkshire moors. It was called the Frog and the Peach, and there were only two entrées on the menu: Frog à la pêche and Pêche à la frog...
When the journalist Faye Levine '65 considers her days at Radcliffe, she wastes no time in recalling the response she received to a Crimson article called "The Three Flavors of Radcliffe," a wretched piece of pop-sociology which said Radcliffe students were all peach, chocolate, or lime (a breakdown that corresponds roughly to today's preppies, nerds, and flakes...
...whole, the reception was favorable David Reisman called "The Three Flavors" brilliant A Radcliffe dean told Madenoiselle magazine I was "the most articulate girl at Radcliffe"--for which I received a ten-dollar prize. The Associated Press sent me on a mission to investigate the chocolate, peach, and limeness of the other seven sisters...
...boar freshly scrubbed for the occasion. Then he and his Agriculture Secretary, John Block, perched themselves on a picnic table and chatted amiably with a group of 40 farmers, all of whom had voted for their guest in 1980. The President sipped lemonade, spooned into homemade peach ice cream and drew hearty laughs with vintage Reagan storytelling...
...movie, a crazed cabbie, played by Robert De Niro, sets out to assassinate a presidential candidate in an attempt to impress a child prostitute, played by Foster. Hinckley so identified with the film's anti-hero that he bought an Army fatigue jacket and took to drinking peach brandy, as did De Niro's character. "I don't know what's gonna happen this year," Hinckley said on the tape. "It's just gonna be insanity if I even make it through the first few days." After lamenting the murder of Beatle John Lennon earlier...