Word: pie
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bigger than any other state budget except California's and destined to swell still more next year -he is pressing the state for as much as $150 million in new aid, has opened a Washington office so that New York can get a larger slice of the federal pie. After the state legislature blocked his attempt to gather all the city's transportation functions under a unified leadership, Lindsay achieved part of his goal with an executive order. He now aims to regroup most of the city's 80-odd departments and bureaus into ten superagencies. Before...
...natured. Smiling and handsome, he prefers shaking hands to shaking minds. He retains the stocky build, the rugged appearance and vigor of his football days on the Michigan varsity. And his earnest squarely-cut brow wrinkles in disappointment at the first sign of ideological disagreement. He likes folksy, apple pie and ice cream humor (Any aspirations in the executive branch, Mr. minority leader? "Oh no fellas, my wife wouldn't let me.") When words or ideas come slow, Ford smiles man to man, and gestures with a large, chunky hand...
...gaiety. All the rushing around is punctuated with blurted moralisms that are supposed to give the film some depth; as Jos tries to coax her back to bed, guiltstricken Georgy worries about her roommate's baby, born two hours earlier, and observes that "God always has a custard pie up his sleeve...
...FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. Broadway's best burlesque show has been hurled at the screen like a custard pie; but despite Director Richard Lester's extravagant cinematics, Top Bananas Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford and Buster Keaton keep 'em laughing at the good and bawd goings on in Nero's Rome...
...enlisted men's chow hall, Johnson picked up a partitioned tray, protested, "I'm watching my waistline" as it was heaped. with baked ham, macaroni, cole slaw, salad, mashed potatoes and apple pie. For a moment he sat alone at a special long table laid out for him with a white tablecloth and yellow roses. Then Westmoreland shouted to his subordinates...