Word: pied
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...towns surrounding Plymouth, people will gorge themselves on turkey dinner and go to the high school football game, eat pumpkin pie and, perhaps, go to sleep. But what do prominent, even famous, people do during the November holiday...
...wants to know, did Georgie Porgie kiss the girls and make them cry? "Because he's mean," I say, with a sinking feeling, for how can this be the right answer? As the rollicking little rhyme makes all too clear, young George is a clever rogue, all pudding and pie; the tearful girls are merely boring. Mother Goose in one hand and a leaky juice box in the other, I begin the sad, infuriating task shared by all modern mothers of daughters: to raise my child to be confident, adventurous and happy in her gender in a society saturated with...
...might tell you that my philosophy represents a very small and marginal section of the baseball community. But I like hot dogs, baseball, apple pie and Chevrolet like everyone else. It's just that my icons come with a few particulars. Thus, the last three and most important commandments...
...Apple pie should be heated, not cold...
...Thus half a dozen well-financed rivals of the traditional men's magazines have arrived or are poised to enter the fray, even at a time when all publications are hard pressed to hold on to advertisers. Warns Charles Elbaum, president of Publishing Economics, a media consulting firm: "The pie has been sliced too many times for them all to survive...