Word: pied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...condominium in the Berkeley Hills.) Once he has selected the day's outfit from three oversized closets that contain 100 shirts and pairs of pants, twelve leather jackets ("I've got every color") and a dozen hats, he heads to a diner called Lois the Pie Queen for brunch...
...imagination and inventiveness that lead man to explore the world and the invisible laws that order it. The book is also an exercise in optimism. With so many scientists predicting that humanity will destroy itself, anyone who writes as enthusiastically about man as Bronowski does is practically inviting a pie in the face from his apprehensive colleagues...
...Hall writes from the wounded veteran's point of view in Mama, Bake a Pie (Daddy, Kill a Chicken...
...about 80 per Ib., while retail prices have climbed steadily, mostly to the benefit of three U.S.-owned companies that grow, ship and market the fruit: United Brands, Del Monte and Standard Fruit & Steamship. Acting singly, the growing countries could not get a bigger slice of the banana pie. Unlike petroleum, bananas cannot be stockpiled; in fact, they must be eaten within twelve days of being picked or they become too soft fpr most palates. So if any one country tried to raise taxes, the three companies could stop dealing with it and leave that nation buried under fast-ripening...
...final budgetary meeting began at 8 p.m. It soon became apparent that the policy board was finding it difficult to divide the much smaller pie. Tempers flared a few times, most strongly during the discussion over how much money the board would keep for itself under Citizen Participation...