Word: pied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture of the Democratic convention if Roosevelt declines the nomination: "The greatest show that the party has put on since Madison Square Garden. A thousand men, suddenly free, with their shackles shaken off overnight, are going to put on such a ghost dance as will look like a custard-pie supper in a madhouse...
...Government-building cafeterias (the Bureau of Printing & Engraving) was denounced as "horribly unhealthy." Specific gripes in the complaint of the United Federal Workers of America (C.I.O.): a mouse in the soup container, worms cooked in greens, a caterpillar in the gingerbread, chewing gum on a pie plate, fish scales in the soup, improperly washed china...
...TIME'S three top flight cover artists are Russian, but Baker is as American as apple pie. He began his art career at 17 when he invested $15 in a drawing course by mail-and since then almost everything he has done seems to have prepared him in one way or another for his present work as cover artist for TIME. He drew 25?-apiece caricatures to help pay his way through Colgate-was political cartoonist on two newspapers-for years was one of America's most sought-after magazine illustrators...
...shuffled out. Presently he set before me tomato juice and avocado salad. This was followed by the steak with French-fried potatoes, Golden Bantam corn, a dish of green field peas, ice tea and hot biscuits with country butter. For dessert there was a generous piece of banana cream pie with real whipped cream...
...food is actually a new kind of yeast, with added flavors that make it almost indistinguishable from natural foods. Its makers, Anheuser-Busch, have demonstrated its possibilities by serving meals including two delicious kinds of soup, meat loaf, muffins, cheese sticks, even pie-all made of varieties of yeast. Since yeast is the richest known source of B vitamins and contains about 50% protein (twice as much as meat), it surpasses meat as sheer food. And pound for pound of protein, yeast costs only a fifth as much as meat...