Word: soak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rightist" by some U.S. journalists, his program would be too radical for most U.S. citizens. He has proposed: 1) nationalization of heavy industry, mines, forests, utilities, banks and transportation; 2) redistribution among small farmers of large estates and confiscated Japanese lands; 3) a planned economy; 4) a soak-the-rich tax program with total exemptions for poorer classes...
Voluntary Conformity. To the Labor Government, however, the new tax was not only an attractively easy way of raising a lot of money, but a soak-the-rich sop to trade unionists whom it has asked to accept wage freezes (TIME, Feb. 16). Fortified by Marshall Plan aid, which Cripps hailed as "a light and hope to the freedom-loving peoples of the world," Britain's Socialist Government felt that it was safely over some of the political rough spots, too. Russia's grab for Europe had rallied even most left-wing Laborite rebels behind the government...
Remove the seeds from the chiles. Brown the chiles, soak them in warm water for 15 minutes, then grind into a paste. Roast the removed chile seeds, grind them together with the chocolate and all the other ingredients (except the sesame seeds). This makes two separate pastes. Put them together and fry in plenty of shortening, stirring constantly until thick. Then dilute with chicken or turkey broth to the consistency of cream soup. Pour all this over slices of boiled turkey, bring the entire dish to a boil for five minutes, serve sprinkled with sesame seed. Sop the sauce with...
...cousin gave her plenty to talk about. "Why," said she, "you'd think to see [Americans] in the movies they lived in tiled bathrooms and took a barth every mornin'. Not that I'm against it ... I do like to 'ave a good 'ot soak once in a while, after cleanin' out the 'en 'ouse. . . . But when you get there, they're jest ordinary folks like us. ... When you see 'em, you like 'em. Wot's more, they like...
...invasion is part of Yale's plan for producing not just casebook lawyers but what Dean Wesley A. Sturges calls "the policy-making man of tomorrow." Even the lawyers on Yale's faculty soak their casebooks in a heady wine of history, sociology, politics and economics, like to call in everybody from coal barons to clinical psychiatrists as guest experts. Says Sturges: "Our idea of law is more than the butterfly-&-microscope approach, the anatomy of legal proceedings. We try to put the rules of law into their social setting...