Word: pie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desserts--Blueberry Gateaux ($.50), Apple Tart ($.35) and Chocolate Pie ($.30) were sumptuous. The cheesecake ($.50) was luxurious, very rich and not oversweet...
...Instead of getting mad at their landlord when their rent goes up, people now get mad at the President. Somehow the Government has put itself in a position of saying, "We are going to protect you." There is a feeling that Uncle Sam is standing there making sure the pie is going to be sliced properly...
...violent as it undeniably is, the U.S. has no monopoly on that tendency. If violence is as American as cherry pie, in that overcelebrated phrase, it is also as German as strudel, as Russian as borsch, as Japanese as sake. Last week a bomb went off when the wife of a German Supreme Court Justice stepped on the accelerator of her Volkswagen; luckily she escaped with minor injuries from a left-wing plot against her husband. The week before, a top policeman in Milan was shot to death as he walked out of his apartment building. The list grows...
...faced the central problem of direction. Was the only job of the CIO to organize industrial workers to bring them a "piece of the pie"? Or would the CIO provide the organization for an independent international labor movement...
...After reading your Essay "Psychology of Murder" [April 24], I am forced to say that phrases like "Violence is as American as cherry pie" and "sick society"-mouthed and re-mouthed incessantly for shock effect-offend my passion for scientific accuracy...