Word: pies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the hot dogs and still I put one in my mouth. Everyone I see is ugly. They are all ugly, ugly. Boxing is like a dirty rain filtering through the air of the city, bringing all the worms to the surface. I have never seen so many pork-pie hats in my life. I pay a dollar sixty for a cup of beer and head back to my seat. I am nauseous. I am hoping I can hide...
...Europeanized President; or Westerners who would prefer not seeing a Princeton President; or Easterners who would prefer not to see a Western President. Reagan will never make anyone feel that he's above the people who elected him." As Designer Halston puts it, "He's American pie at its best...
...managed to blunt major attempts at social services reform in parliament. "Everyone agrees to the welfare state, but not on how to pay for it," concludes Wim Kok, head of the Dutch Labor Federation. "We are in the middle of a choice on how to divide a pie that is no longer getting bigger...
...impossible to comprehend, the boxer is our Deerslayer, the last surviving synthesis of American violence and American aloneness. And whether the boxer deserves to be a hero, still there is no denying him his status in merely practical terms in a country where violence is "as American as apple pie...
...long time, Glaser recalls, even some of his scientific colleagues "thought T was writing science fiction." Many critics, recoiling at the potential cost of $100 billion or so for the first satellite, called his idea a pie-in-the-sky space boondoggle. Others worried about the effects of microwave radiation, fretting that passengers in passing airplanes might be flash-cooked like roasts in a microwave oven...