Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mumble Pie. In Baltimore, after they discovered that the microphone in their meeting room at the Southern Hotel was dead, members of a symposium on "Generating Electric Current" at the Convention of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers adjourned to the Lord Baltimore Hotel, found the microphones were dead there, too, finally resorted to old-fashioned lung power...
While stressing new Asian economic programs, the President carefully specified that there would be no Marshall Plan-like pie-splitting among the nations themselves. Said he: "The varied nature of national situations requires that our cooperation be essentially bilateral." Ike asked for $915 million for Asian economic aid (v. $513 million last year...
...meaning of leisure. It is a leisure of action-barbecue parties in the backyard, motor trips along country roads and across the country, weekend golf and water skiing. From America's lively leisure has evolved a new, home-grown fashion, as different from Paris fashion as apple pie from crepes suzette. Paris can still claim its title as the custom-fashion capital of the world. But the French still design for Veblenesque leisure. Their clothes compliment the designer, whereas America's are made to compliment the wearer. A young Manhattan mother put it simply: "When I get dressed...
...Pie in the Sky. In Phoenix, Ariz., police arrested Jimmy Verdugo on suspicion of drunkenness after they found him in a tree and heard his explanation that he was 1) looking for cigarette butts, 2) waiting for a bus, 3) looking for a girl to dance with...
...their job easier. He was haled before the committee last week for a 20-minute confrontation that was marred only by a few heated exchanges with his archrival, Hugh Gaitskell. Nye, who like many of his Welsh constituents once lived sparely on bread and dripping (grease), now ate humble pie with a relish. He apologized deeply to Party Leader Clement Attlee "for any pain I may have caused him," and begged the committee "for nothing more than the opportunity to serve our party under his leadership." So reassuring were his words that next day the party executive decided...