Word: pie
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conquered capital was divided like a pie into four slices (see map). The Americans occupied about a quarter, mostly residential. The British held another quarter, partly residential, partly industrial. The French occupied only one borough, a thin wedge between the British and Russians. The Red Army slice was biggest-almost half the city, including its business heart. As far as the Elbe River, the Russians controlled all outlying regions through which the Allied supply routes...
Easy Pickings. In Milwaukee, Owen Murphy noticed that a Y.M.C.A. cafeteria marked its day-old slabs of pie with toothpicks and sold them at half-price, also spotted a thrifty diner who was toting his own supply of toothpicks...
...Hayes and Pharmacist's Mate John Bradley - rode through the rain to inspire the cheering citizens of Boston. In Tampa, a 75-mm. cannon boomed hourly from Plant Park. In Indianapolis, Mayor Robert Tyndall gave "the order of the day": Over the top. Indianapolis. Cheyenne County, Wyo. held "pie socials." Funnyman S. J. Perelman and Author John Roy (Under Cover) Carlson exhorted the people of Pittsburgh. Troops simulated airborne attacks on Chicago. In The Bronx, bond-buyers were allowed to ring a replica of the Liberty Bell. In Manhattan, buyers were permitted to eat their way through a five...
...Europe was over. But most felt that they had already lived through a sort of V-E week, and across the great Main Street of America there was only a little cheering. In Des Moines a housewife telephoned a newspaper: "Shall I go ahead and bake a pie for tomorrow?" In Emporia, Kans., as in most of the nation's towns and villages, it was another Monday and another washday. But on this Monday, Emporia got the news that four more of its sons had been killed in battle...
Stomach Abracadabra. The doctor who hung his shingle in the village or rode circuit through the forest was, often as not, a quack. Charms were popular: for convulsions, pour baptismal water over the peony bush; for bedwetting, fried-mouse pie; for a cold, crawl through a double-rooted briar toward the east; for a fever, write "Abracadabra" on a piece of paper and wear it over the stomach. Manufactured charms included "Perkins Patent Tractors" (metal rods to draw out disease) and "Dr. Christie's Galvanic Belt . . . for all nervous diseases...