Word: pied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airline pilots have a union that actually delivers pie in the sky. The 31,000 members of the Air Line Pilots Association earn an average of $33,250 a year-it goes up to $59,000 for some captains on transatlantic runs-for working 60 to 85 hours a month. No less generous with themselves, ALPA captains collect flight pay of around $40 per hour for time that they spend on association business; last year union officers managed to spend $1,100,000 on "meals, travel and lodging." Their power matches their pay. The union can put out of business...
Robbing banks is as American as apple pie...
...Park, and I used to walk there. I can't do it now because of [crime] conditions in this city. I've been very observant of my weight. I had to cut off 20 pounds, and I had to give up everything I like, like chocolate cream pie. My two dogs are among the smartest and most affectionate dogs I've ever seen. Anybody would think twice before they'd commit murder because of the way those dogs bark. They're great company to me. The less I think of some people, the more...
...gawky Huck Finns, jolly G.I.s, laundered blacks and apple-cheeked mothers in bifocals; its flags, turkeys, sneakers and little clapboard banks. Today Rockwell's America may seem almost as distant as Thomas More's Utopia, but this sumptuous tome pleasurably suggests why his genre pieces, painterly apple-pie to the last brush stroke, defined a whole area of solid comfort and nostalgic selfesteem...
Fletcher Watson, professor of Science Education, said at yesterday's meeting that "a piece of pie can only be sliced in so many ways, and this is a small piece. According to this report the teaching area vanishes...