Word: pies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sometimes wade chest-deep in icy water. They will seldom be dry until the logs reach Keegan late in June. They eat prodigiously and often (breakfast at dawn, first lunch at 10 a.m., second at 2 p.m., supper in the early evening). The river staples are meat, potatoes and pie, but there are always baked beans & molasses, black and dripping with pork...
...plate (Guatemala chayote, Pennsylvania mushrooms, California asparagus, Texas broccoli, Louisiana sweet potatoes, Florida tomatoes); salad (artichoke stuffed with avocado, South American water chestnuts, water-lily roots, papaya); mousse Tropicana (a scooped-out Temple orange, frozen solid, filled with ice cream, chopped figs, dates, California walnuts and Brazilian nuts); pia-pie Brazil (sponge cake and fresh pineapple...
This bit of propaganda, making use of an institution as British as mutton pie, followed Foreign Minister Molotov's announcement of wider autonomy for member states of the U.S.S.R. (TIME, Feb. 14). It also drove home the point that the Russians are determined to regain and keep the briefly free (1918-40) Baltic countries...
...armchair agronomist, Ray Anderson's talents range far afield from reporting. His farm page is a bursting bin of unmetered verse, sound information on crops and controls, self-snapped pictures, Falstaffian musings on the "gorgeous gorging" of apple-mulberry pie at Center Junction. Before gasoline rationing slowed his pace he averaged 38,000 miles a year, perhaps half of them over unpaved pikes and stubbly fields...
...liberty nights the steadily decreasing number of arrests still runs over 400 and the S.P. pie-wagons keep shuttling until long after dawn. They have handled all kinds of violence, including murder...