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Word: pie (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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They still complement each other neatly, but the interplay between them lacks the subtle Laurel and Hardy mix of hostility and mutual dependence, not to mention their patient skill at milking a gag. And so Smashing Time ends up as little more than a lot of pratfalling and pie-throwing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: NEW MOVIES | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

...social commentator, Hope dares more than anyone else in show business to throw a pie in the industry's face. As emcee at the Oscar award ceremonies one year, he observed that "this is the night when war and politics are forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Comedian as Hero | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...corps. Over the past six years in various staff jobs at the Marine headquarters-and for the past five months as assistant commandant. Chapman became known as a man of quiet competence. As a fellow officer described him: "You never catch him looking at only one slice of the pie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Cerebral Commandant | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

...Warm, friendly, mature girls," on the other hand, wear fishnet sweaters, black stockings, and colored underwear, according to Snavely. Other positive factors are very long or very short hair, indicating "that a girl wants to characterize herself as anti-apple pie;" flatchestedness, making a girl tend to "prove her femininity and sexuality however she can;" and coming alone to the mixer, a show "of maturity and self-confidence which her flocking sisters cannot claim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Want to Score? Seniors Tell How | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

...thing, sir. May I mention that Plum Pie, thanks to the information I provided, also contains rather cutting portrayals of a number of your-er, associates, notably Bingo Little, Cyril Grooly, Freddie Threepwood and Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge. One feels that you emerge as the ablest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: You Rang, Sir? | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

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