Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...following two days the party's left wing was-comparatively speaking-as sweet as pie. Paul Robeson busied himself with nothing more provocative than singing 01' Man River. Manhattan's leftist firebrand, Congressman Vito Marcantonio, emitted a few wild yips, but concentrated on a routine target-Harry Truman, whom he described as a "little alderman in a big house...
With the U.S. Government running into the red at the rate of $10,000 a minute, gaunt, grey Economist Edwin G. Nourse last week issued a stern warning. Said President Truman's former chief economic adviser: the Administration's reckless spending under its "pie in the sky" philosophy would, unless checked by tough-minded slashes, lead to "strain and possible breakdown" of the U.S. economy...
...tremendously. Gary's distinction is that, almost alone among contemporary authors, he works in the tradition of Henry Fielding and the old English novel. With The Horse's Mouth, which completes a trilogy, more U.S readers are due to discover the unexpectedness of Gary's mutton pie in an age of literary thin...