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Word: pied (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shockley spoke first in his grandfatherly tone, deftly turning talks of sterilization into a defense of motherhood, and racial inferiority into easily sliced apple pie...

Author: By David J. States, | Title: Shockley's Racism Circus Comes to Yale | 4/23/1975 | See Source »

...said: "Violence is...as American as cherry pie...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg and Tom Lee, S | Title: The Joyce-Maynard-is-21,-The-Sixties-Are-History Quiz | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

Vicarious degradation from the godfathers of mercenary humiliation is not "lighthearted havoc" [March 10]. The humble-pie manifesto reads clearly between the lines: 1) stamp out sanity, 2) uphold anarchy, 3) wreak pandemonium, and 4) escape reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Mar. 24, 1975 | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

Will America be blinded by this craze? We must face the whipped-cream threat and lick it before it meringues our morals. Ask not for whom the pie flies, it flies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Mar. 24, 1975 | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

Wouldn't it be great if the pieman could cometh to Congress! Each opening session would begin with an intense ten-minute pie fight. It would be a grand way to get rid of hostilities and envelop that august body in a meringuey camaraderie. I think it would raise public esteem for our legislators as well-they would get most of the foolishness, pomposity, orneriness, pettiness and childishness out of their systems in one brisk fling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Mar. 24, 1975 | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

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