Word: pies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was, for instance, an Edam Cheese dish (it's in the book), stuffed with fish and fruit, a Chocolate Pie which comes out in separate layers. Then, there are simple things like a Mountain Soup; exotic dishes like Moghal Rice from India, Avocado Ice Cream from Hawaii, and a Ground-Nut Chop from West Africa that should be an experience for any American palate...
...opened the book and turned to the preface. "In the field of government operation of utilities generally considered to lie within the domain of private enterprise . . ." He turned quickly to near the middle and found a series of pie-shaped diagrams in rows across the page. He added the percents in one of the pies, found they came to a hundred, and closed the book. Some music would help; he leaned over and turned on the radio...
Surrender of the Pie Cards. Thus Murray brought to an end eleven years of a Communist campaign to wiggle into and capture his C.I.O. The overwhelmingly right-wing delegates voted down the line with Murray. They were mostly "pie card" unionists (men & women on union payrolls), not labor's rank & file. They were well disciplined. With a loud aye, in effect they surrendered their old constitutional authority as a convention and gave Murray and his executive board virtually absolute power over 39 C.I.O. unions-the power to 1) bar Communists from sitting on the executive board, 2) expel...
...though ballet had been a London rage since the 18th Century. Under the stern direction of a tiny Irish-born former Diaghilev dancer named Ninette de Valois, they had modeled their company after the classical Russian patterns. But in 20 years, it had become as British as meat pie...
Grandstand quarterbacking is supposed to be a Constitutional right-like eating Mem's apple pie or rooting for the Dodgers. If so, perhaps the Constitution should be amended...