Word: pied
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Student groups at many schools have become frustrated with trying to get funds through their student governments and have tried different methods of getting a bigger slice of the pie...
...Warning!" blares the dessert menu, threatening addiction to the treats that range in price from three to five dollars. While some may choose the peanut butter pie dressed with a drizzle of European chocolate, the Slice O' Skippy leaves something to be desired. Perhaps if the dry, dense Chocolate Bourbon Cake was mixed with it, the Reeses Peanut Butter Cup effect could redeem both...
...phrase: presidential semen. "Monica's Love Dress," as the New York Post dubbed it, fast became a staple of water-cooler talk and late-night comedy. Politically Incorrect's Bill Maher said a survey of newspaper readers found it "the news story they least want explained by a pie chart...
...life merry pranks--like dropping dollars on the New York Stock Exchange--are over. Now it's supposed to be just zany computer viruses and phony E-mail stories, right? Not last week, when BILL GATES, in Brussels for a meeting with the Belgian government, got nailed with a pie in the face. The culprits were a band of four or five guys, two of whom were caught. One was videotaping the event. Some suspect that Noel Godin, a Belgian who somehow makes money by tossing custard pies at the rich and famous, was involved. Get a computer, Noel...
Needless to say, few settings could have been more different from my Harvard existence. The Puritan work ethic, half-hour lunch and drinking age seemed designed specifically to make me miserable. But despite my readiness to apply for Spanish citizenship, there was something I missed. Not apple pie or cheap gas, but the multi-colored, multi-ethnic world I call home...