Word: pied
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...memories are equally warm and fuzzy in Homefront. In this postwar soap opera set in a small Ohio town, mothers greet their returning soldier boys with "your favorite pie" and chide their kids with quaint cliches like, "You move as slow as molasses in January." Not that there isn't trouble in this paradise. One veteran comes home to a sweetheart who has fallen in love with his brother. There are stirrings of race and sex discrimination as well. A black veteran applies for work at the local factory but is told the only opening is for a janitor...
...have sex with Donna Rice, Jessica Hahn, Bob Dole. He can nuke Yugoslavia, legalize slavery, give ourselves back to England. He can abolish motherhood, apple pie, the American flag...
...both basic and applied scientific research in universities & was only 20% higher than in 1968, while the number of Ph.D.-level scientists working at the schools doubled during the same time period. In other words, twice as many researchers are scrambling for smaller pieces of a slightly bigger pie. The competition for financing has forced scientists into fundraising efforts at the expense of research and has led to angry exchanges over what kind of work should have priority. It has also forced researchers to propose "safe" projects with an obvious end product...
...foodies, Florida was never a big stop on the U.S. eating circuit. Tourists ate fish, most often frozen. Frozen crab cakes. Frozen fried shrimp. Frozen Dover sole. For authenticity, there were boiled stone crabs, alligator for the hardy and lots of Key lime pie. In Guide Michelin terms, not worth a detour...
...last week lobbed a pre-emptive strike against Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, warning that his private life will be fair game if he decides to run for President. The main inspiration for the paper is political gadfly Robert ("Say") McIntosh, a Little Rock restaurateur known as the "Sweet Potato Pie King," who is trying to stir up trouble for Clinton in Arkansas, handing out rumormongering leaflets...