Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave the country peace, should cause the country useless bloodshed." Then he announced the members of the junta: Paris, Navas Pardo, National Police Director Major General Deogracias Fonseca, Secret Police Chief Brigadier General Luis E. Ordóñez and former Public Works Minister (and Rear Admiral) Ruben Pie-drahita. General Paris, as president of the junta, promised on his honor as an officer that popular elections will be held next year. And Cardinal Luque appealed to the people to support the junta...
...fringe benefits. Argued Bugas: since 1954 wage packages have exceeded 5% annually in key industries, and these increases have not been absorbed through greater productivity. The result: increasing cost pressure against prices. The ultimate result, if labor continues to ask not only for "an increased share of a growing pie, but actually to eat the pie before it is baked": the corrosion of not only "individual security but the underpinning of our social structure...
...having already established a national calendar of twelve months (more or less comparable to the Gregorian) and threatening soon to put weights and measures on the metric system, Nehru's government chose to inaugurate a new decimal coinage. In place of the rupee (20?), anna (1/16 rupee) and pie (1/12 anna) of the past, the new money will consist solely of rupees and naye paise (literally: new coins) worth .01 rupees. The trouble is that for three years both sets of coins will be used at once, and since there is not always a way of translating pies...
...artichokes, 200 pickles, 15 mushrooms, 20 slices of smoked tongue, four portions of meat-filled dumplings, two bowls of rice, two helpings of hog's pudding, three helpings of boiled beef and chili, one chicken, three helpings of veal with salad, 1 Ib. of cheese, half a pie, a bowl of fruit, a gallon of wine, three glasses of cognac, four cups of coffee...
...with deep emotion") was not lost on his fellow filmsters, nor was its bestseller ranking: first on almost all popularity charts, including first in store sales and on jukeboxes, most often played by disk jockeys. Among Hollywood-be singers who were nibbling at Hunter's slice of the pie last week...