Word: pied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worst of all, a callous News Chronicle reporter suggested a recipe for rook pie.* So far, however, rooks were proving just as hard to hit as ever. As John Gay, another British poet, had put it: "To shoot at crows is powder flung away...
...program. Congress intended it to be that way; when it wrote the merger act, it specifically directed the new Military Establishment to produce such a program. Congress, so most people thought, would merely take the program and fit it into budgetary limits. Everything was going to be in apple-pie order...
...Washington he lives at the quiet, dignified Hay-Adams House, across Lafayette Square from the White House. He rises at 7, eats breakfast in the House restaurant because he likes the toast and can talk to fellow Congressmen, lunches either in the House restaurant or cloakroom (sandwich and pie), dines at the Hay-Adams...
...Wobblies were on the march to keep a legend of martyrdom alive. That legend is woven around Joe Hill, a tough Wobbly organizer and songwriter ("You'll get pie in the sky when you die") who was put to death (by a firing squad) for murder in Utah in 1915. Wobblies charge that he was framed...
With five minutes to go, Coach Hickey mercifully took Macauley out of the game, two minutes later put in his scrubs. Final score: 65-52. Then the Billikens joyfully broke training with banana cream pie a la mode', went off to an all-night bowling alley for a little exercise...