Word: pied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strong rallies by Ann Low-key an?? Sissy Clark almost brought Pomero?? an upset win, but Adele Monte burie ?? a ten pin in the tenth to end her team' ?? hopes. "I just couldn't concentrate, "?? she explained. "My mind was on that hot apple pie at McDonald's." The golden arches glowed overhead...
When French voters finished balloting last week in nationwide municipal elections, they left a haphazardly divided political pie. The Gaullists marginally increased their overall strength, taking 52% of the municipal seats. The Communists won 45 out of France's 193 largest towns-six more than they previously controlled-the most victories for any single party. The divided centrist groups, which Radical Party Politician-Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber had hoped to weld into an alternative to the Gaullists and Communists, lost ground to both...
...cooking, Field started a culinary school and in 1964 turned his full attention to classic cuisine. He produced a series of literate cookbooks and debunked such myths as the need to wash mushrooms, devein shrimp and press garlic. He preached imaginative uses for leftovers, such as Armenian lamb pie made from roast leg of lamb. His books include Michael Field's Cooking School, Michael Field's Culinary Classics and Improvisations and All Manner of Food. With his wife, Frances, he wrote the TIME-LIFE book A Quintet of Cuisines...
...promise you there was at least one pair of skeptical ears listening to the "pie-in-the-sky" trade deal last night. Nobody gets anything without giving up a lot, that's granted, but not even Edward, Duke of Windsor, who gave up his crown for love, handed over more valuable goods than those two golden skates...
...author of that statement is not a spiritual brother to H. Rap Brown ("Violence is as American as cherry pie"). Rather, he is a former FBI agent named William G. Barry, chief of Smith & Wesson Security Services, a year-old firm that advises bankers on how to frustrate the robbers. Barry argues that knocking over banks has always been a particularly popular crime in the U.S., the home of such anti-heroes as the James brothers, John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde. Bank robberies in 1969 were running almost twice as high as four years before, and burglaries were also...