Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...food and agriculture. Tories call him "Uncle Fred" the Laborites call him "Uncle Woof-Woof" -in both cases behind his back. As Brit ain's wartime Food Minister, he did an amazingly efficient job of fusing the nation by substituting such cold comforts as dried eggs and Woolton Pie (cod and potatoes) for the beefy luxuries of the British dinner table -and instead of becoming the most unpopular man in Britain, emerged as a nationally respected and almost popular figure...
...house. Don noticed a rock-like object half buried in the ground, dropped down to get it out of the way before somebody fell on it. When Don tried to dig it up, he got a surprise. Though only half as big as a small pie, it weighed about...
...dock." In the 18th Century, "Hot Cross Buns / One a penny / Two a penny" was a street vendor's cry. "Baa, baa, black sheep / Have you any wool?" probably dates back to the export tax imposed on wool in 1275. The "Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie" goes back to the Renaissance, when live birds really were put in pies, ready to fly out when the pie was cut, to cause a "diverting Hurley-Burley amongst the Guests...
...Little Jack Horner, he was very likely the thieving steward of Glastonbury Abbey during the reign of Henry VIII. "The story goes," say the Opies, "that at the time of the Dissolution, the abbot ... sent his steward to [Henry VIII] with a Christmas gift: a pie in which were hidden the title deeds of twelve manors. On the journey, Jack Horner is said to have opened the pie and extracted the deed of the Manor of Mells . . . His descendants live there to this...
Coventrians, who had first look at the entries, expressed their contempt in a colorful string of nicknames: "the grand piano," "the Kremlin," "the pork pie," "the egg-in-a-cup," "the beehive." Even the winning entry, a conservatively modern stone, glass, concrete and steel structure by Scottish Architect Basil Spence, was compared unenthusiastically to a cinema, a factory and a block of flats...