Word: piecrust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...launches into the most passionate eating scenes since Tom Jones. Occasionally he falls as flat as a novice's souffle. He once referred to the trimming of mushroom stems for a steak-kidney-mushroom-and-oyster pie as "a small circumcision." He crimped the edge of a piecrust with a gag-store pair of false teeth. His hyper-Briticisms tend to be overdone...
...Promises and piecrust," observed Dr. Swift, "are made to be broken." By ignoring such cynicism, California's Ronald Reagan risked a lot of pastry. During his election campaign, the new Republican Governor had pledged "sound financial management," and last week had the crust to demand the highest budget ever proposed in any American state, buttressed by the biggest tax boost in California history...
Question: What do you do if the kinfolk show up only at hog-killing time, licking their chops for pork? Answer: Keep the execution secret. Question: What do you do when your husband's whittle shavings are always flying into the piecrust? Answer: Get him a "whittling room...