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Word: pies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jennifer Bodnar, stopping in en route to Vermont, quibble in front of the bakery window before finally settling on a key lime pie--Jay's choice--after some good-natured argument...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Life of Cheese: Say Formaggio Kitchen | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

...know, I'm making sacrifices all the time!" Jennifer says, bantering back. She decides to add ten Halloween cookies to her pie purchase--"The kids can eat them...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Life of Cheese: Say Formaggio Kitchen | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

Only a few raise their hands. "What's wrong with you all?" smirks Ebony Ingram. "Look, it's all the white boys." Two of the parents promised Phillips last week at parents' night that they would send in a pie for this morning's class; neither seems to have remembered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monday: 7:30 A.M. English Class | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

Phillips tells the class of a restaurant she went to over the weekend that served the pie, as well as ham hocks, collard greens and smothered beef stew. "And what do all these things have in common?" The white students are still stumped when Robert Givens chimes in. "No offense to my Caucasian friends, but sounds to me like you were eating black foods," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monday: 7:30 A.M. English Class | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...times, it's hard to tell whether Yates, physics and astronomy teacher and chair of the science department, is a member of the faculty or still a kid. He often tells students how much he's craving an RC Cola or a Moon Pie or a Slim Jim. He allows them to drink bottled water in class and speak up without raising their hands. But he's best known for his antics--shooting chalk through a plastic tube, or dropping a huge chemistry book on the floor for its startling effect. It's a formula that works, creating an environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thursday: 10:52 P.M. Astronomy | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

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