Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dominican Republic's merengue closely resembles neighboring Haiti's meringue (pronounced like the topping on a lemon pie). In Dominican eyes, the livelier Haitian meringue seems oversexed, while to Haitian ears the Dominicans' merengue seems oversaxed. Both nations claim to have invented the ancestral meringue-merengue, but the true origins are obscure. One oft-told Dominican tale is that the merengue got started when a party of Dominican villagers welcoming home a war hero with a maimed leg sympathetically copied his gimpy style of dancing. The story is supposed to account for the merengue...
...Clear Night." The slangy American idiom of the lyrics was bound to be mangled in translation. Surprisingly, the Spanish version came up with some good approximations: e.g., "I'm as corny as Kansas in August, I'm as normal as blueberry pie" came out "I'm as happy as a cat in January, as the butterfly in April . . ." The "Wonderful Guy" became "My Ideal Type." and "Some Enchanted Evening" was changed to "One Clear Night." Bloody Mary was still "The Girl I Love," but the punch line of the song, "Now ain't that too damn...
...Cherry Pie: Extra money earned for something other than ordinary work...
...expedition's radioed accounts of its adventures made front-page headlines in Buenos Aires. The Argentines take great pride in their antarctic expeditions, and in the nation's claim to a huge pie-slice of the wind-whipped south-polar wasteland...
Besides Great Britain, Argentina and Chile, four other nations-Australia, New Zealand, Norway and France-claim slices of the polar pie. The U.S. puts forth no claims of its own, and does not officially recognize those of other nations. Before World War II, the U.S. held to the doctrine -laid down in 1924 by Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes-that no nation could rightly claim sovereignty over an area that it could not effectively occupy...