Word: pies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wall to Wall. Though the scene was as American as deep-freeze apple pie, the setting was not. The tightly knit settlement of 15,000 U.S. citizens-mainly Air Force dependents with a sprinkling of Army folk-stands on a wooded hilltop above the baroque German city of Wiesbaden (pop. 250,000) at a bend of the Rhine River. In this slumless paradise, each officer's or noncom's family is assigned a completely furnished, one-to five-bedroom apartment in buildings erected for them by the West German government. Some 600 bachelor officers and civilians are housed...
Since then, the town has played host to 14 G.O.P. and nine Democratic conventions, not to mention the Pickle Packers, Lawn Bowlers, Button Collectors, Flying Farmers, Moms of America, Amalgamated Poultry Sexers, Cigar Box Manufacturers, Match Cover Collectors, Chihuahua Clubbers, International Twins Association, National Cherry Pie Bakers, National Curled Hair Manufacturers, and the Egg Case Fillers of America...
...placards on lampposts, ripping down the posters of the other side. The English-language papers openly plugged the anti-republican side, just as Afrikaner editors gave the headlines to government workers who were urging the electorate to vote Ja. One excited anti-republic housewife out shopping heaved a custard pie into the face of a jeering Nationalist...
...been carved out of Mount Rushmore. Instead of Ed Begley in the role of Bryan there is Fredric March, who has somehow been persuaded to portray that unbalanced genius of the spoken word as a low-comedy stooge who at the climax catches a faceful of agnostic pie...
...only man in the bake-off was awarded one of the top prizes. U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Ramon Cabalona, who is chief steward aboard the submarine U.S.S. Catfish, won the $1,000 first prize in the pies and dessert division for his orange cream pie topped with meringue. Its name: sub-meringue pie...