Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kelley asserted that the union shop, "which is as American as apple pie," eliminates friction between plant employees that could cause a drop in production. He added that a union is in a much stronger position to enforce terms of collective bargaining when it has full support of all workers concerned...
...public medicine that even healthy Alaskans from Barrow to Kenai tune in their radios to little else. For titillation, they say, professional entertainment hardly compares. One schoolteacher-nurse's wife, forced to listen during dinner, queasily agrees: "If you've never listened to symptoms while eating chocolate pie, you haven't lived...
Dulcinea Smith is a witless, bromidic, meddlesome but well-meaning woman with a mania for engineering other people's lives. She manages to have a finger in every pie and a foot in every mouth. In a bridge game she wonders whether she should "discard from strength or weakness." Actually, she does everything from weakness...
...gourmet" items, planning to sell them for prestige value alone. General Foods this year will add seven new luxuries, including bouillabaisse ($1.10), spiced Cherry Heering preserves ($1.25), Smithfield ham and cheese paté (70?), babas au rhum ($1.10). Nestlé will now have a big finger in the luxury pie, recently signed to sell Switzerland's famed Hero line of preserves...
...learn from White that each baron owed the King an annual sniff of hot pie in payment of his feudal dues, that a certain bone from the body of a pure black cat that had been boiled alive was believed to make one invisible. Against these curiosa, the characters still manage to hold their own: Sir Galahad, who is so priggish a saint that lesser knights loathe him; Jenny, who cannot make her mind up whether to be a good woman or go on in her usual way; Lancelot, the ugly duckling who is loved by all save himself. Balancing...