Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Read is certainly no bomb-throwing extremist. For him, anarchism is a "pie in the sky." He uses it only as a guide to action. In every practical decision he would follow the course leading to a greater degree of government decentralization...
...King and his aides were hustled into the farmhouse, where they were introduced to Farmer J. George Smith, 36, and his family. Then everybody sat down to a solid country dinner-fried chicken, acorn squash, mashed potatoes, string beans with bacon drippings, cider and green apple pie. King Paul explained that he preferred white meat, but the Queen, he said, liked dark meat, and "between us, we lick the platter clean." Then, to the astonishment of the Smiths, he recited the Jack Sprat nursery rhyme and promptly cleaned his own platter...
...meet the terms of the contract, Sackett must, among other provisions, pay $580,000 by the end of this year. Publisher Sackett, 51, may have trouble meeting the payments since even his friends regard him as an eccentric individualist who alternates between periods of money-making journalism and pie-in-the-sky newspaper deals. Last week, in the wake of his latest deal, the Seattle law firm that has represented him for 13 years resigned...
...assume that every boy must be able to read as it is that each one must be able to perform on a violin, that it is no more reasonable to require that each girl shall spell well than it is that each one shall bake a good cherry pie." I have never made this statement or any statement similar to it. Such a reference may be damaging to a teacher or school administrator...
...read a balance sheet the hard way. He quit school in Toronto at 14, began to clerk in a fishing supply store, starting at $5 a week. Within ten years he had invested his small savings so shrewdly that he had $20,000, which he lost in a pie-in-the-sky Saskatchewan land deal. During the Depression he sold radios in northern Ontario, quickly found that in some remote Canadian towns reception was so poor that few people would buy his sets. Thomson knew how to solve that. For $500, he bought his own transmitter, started broadcasting recorded programs...