Word: pie
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company has almost been torpedoed out of the water several times in the boom-or-bust shipbuilding industry. In 1925, BIW actually closed its doors, and there were plans for turning the yard into a factory for making paper pie plates. In 1927, William S. ("Pete") Newell, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an old-stock Yankee, bought BIW at auction and began building any kind of ship he could: yachts, Coast Guard cutters, fishing boats, then Navy vessels as World War II approached. Employment swelled to more than 12,000 during the war, but then plunged...
...story didn't end with the Jelley-Weber-McNulty trinity. Speeding in fourth with his best time ever was senior Peter Johnson with a 31:48. And a mere three seconds later freshman Cliff Sheehan plowed in to claim his share of the pie...
...range from dirty floors and long service times to allowing dogs (and their byproducts) to lounge in food preparation areas. Schultz also charged at the trial that "Dayan cooked his hamburger patties 180 degrees too high; french fries 50 degrees too high; fish 55 degrees too high; and apple pie 67 degrees too high." To make matters worse, he added, "Customers waited for service for more than three minutes." The net result of Dayan's peccadilloes: "His mismanagement has destroyed the McDonald's image...
...Reagan interrupted. "The new White House cook. She turns out a great chicken-pot pie...
What to make of this slice of American pie, this pastoral adagio, this memoir-nightmare? Writer Wittliff has drawn the film's setting and tone from his childhood in a small Texas town off the gulf. Nita Longley (Sissy Spacek), a divorced woman with two sons, works in an isolated house as the town's switchboard operator. She meets a fresh-faced sailor (handsomely played by Eric Roberts); there is a tender affair, another man (Sam Shepard), a pair of resentful layabouts, an abrupt slash of melodrama. Except for the denouement, Raggedy Man proceeds with the even pace...