Word: pied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bronx, ex-Pfc. Peter Boucouvales, paralyzed from the waist down by the bullet which had lodged in his neck, lay between clean sheets in the Veterans Administration Hospital. The corridors were cheerless, the windows dirty. His lunch of filet of sole, peas, rice, cole slaw and lemon pie was cold by the time it got to him, but filling nevertheless. Lying in bed, naked to the waist, Boucouvales gazed down at his full stomach. His belly was getting so big, he told the nurses, he ought to be switched to the maternity ward...
Last week, in exhibitions and displays from New York to San Francisco, children and grownups were visiting the beautiful "new country"-immortalized in her picture books (Under the Window, Marigold Garden, A-Apple Pie, The Pied Piper of Hamlin, Kate Greenaway's Alphabet...
Strictly from Hunger. In Ames, Iowa, two white rats, fed for two months a "typical coed's diet" (steak, mashed potatoes, cereal, bread & butter, navy beans, apple pie) by home-economics instructor Mary Barrick, died of malnutrition...
...entire operation is painless enough, now & then funny. Bing sings a few songs; Hope clowns and rolls his eyes at Dotty; the late Robert Benchley breaks in from time to time to put a gloss on the frozen custard-pie humor...
...James Aberdijian, Armenian . . . and yesterday he fell at Concord. . . . We know what you long for, James. . . . We know what your dreams were like. . . . They were as American as apple pie . . . the crunch of a hot dog when you walk on it on a cold day . . . the smack of a wet cigar when it hits you across the face . . . the rattle of cement when you're in the mixer ... the cry 'Play ball...