Word: pied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...launched into a lengthy correspondence with Charles Lauckman. He returned a five question, sheet, the Council tossed in two more questions, looked at the poll and heaved it into the waste paper basket. Two more weeks of unhappy revisions followed and now a third poll dealing exclusively with bread, pie, and wheat cereals lies on the chopping block. A grand total of seven weeks to find out if Harvard wants to save food...
...private, looks expectant. Pretty drunk out last night. wasn't it gents! Laughter from everybody-everybody except the High Forehead. Never had so much fun with my clothes on, though. Loud guffaws while to find out his name sometimes, the Vag thought, the High Forehead turned back to his pie. Ought Might be fairly intelligent. Vag looked at his damp, new cold potate, remembering the story he had told yesterday-of a B plus in a course he hadn't been to three weeks. The admiring smiles, the frown on the high Forehead...
...Tell'em about Olga," suggested the patronizing, watery-eyed youth on his right. No, you boys wouldn't get it. Smiles. Genuine leering smiles. Vag pushed away his pie and stood up, tried. He stopped at the door and looked back. Well, I'll be saucing you. They laughed. Vag left...
...favor serving no bread or rolls one meal per day; 2) Do you favor serving pie one day fewer each week; 3) Do you favor serving no wheat cereals one day per week...
Requiring the student to answer yes or no, the poll asked (1) are you willing to use no meat on Tuesdays; (2) no eggs on Thursdays; (3) is the student willing to forego bread, toast, or rolls one meal per day; (4) eat pie one fewer day each week; (5) give up wheat cereals one day in seven; and (6) take only what he will eat. The final question asks students whether they approve dining halls serving "food of the week," the victuals most plentiful at a certain time...