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Word: soaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contest's outcome could hinge on the candidates' choice of beverage. While Beach says that milk is the key ingredient of his gastronomical prowess, Barton claims that his secret "wonderjuice" will bring him victory. "We're going to soak his Bennies," said Barton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pancake Gobblers Ready for Contest | 12/15/1969 | See Source »

Morris Louis, one of the most romantic of the color abstractionists, pours paint on a raw canvas, letting a veil of color soak into the material. Fluid color is freed to run and spread it chooses yet you sense a mind breathing the components into perfect combination...

Author: By Cyntiha Saltzman, | Title: At the Met New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970 at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art until February 1. | 12/11/1969 | See Source »

...think that the time has come when we must begin to think of alcohol in the same category as other dangerous drugs. Send a reporter to my hospital and I'll show him where our medical tax dollars are going. They're being used like blotters to soak up the alcohol in which most of my patients are pickled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 17, 1969 | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...most part, freshmen tend to concentrate on the junior college girls that Boston seems to soak up like a thirsty, sanitary napkin. Many of these girls, needless to say, are not known for being intellectually topheavy. But, if one's just looking for a little something to help him keep in practice, the i. c. girl is always there on a Saturday night...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: The Year of the Freshman: an annual social event thrown for 1200 selected students, with lifelong repercussions | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...that they will get moldy. To make sure that the mold develops, some Koreans buy a pure culture and spread it on their loaves. By early spring, a furry black or gray growth covers the mash. The Koreans scrape off this "exuberant fungus," as Seel described it, and soak the loaves in brine for a month. Then they pour off the black liquid, which is soy sauce, and make the debris left in the crock into a stiff soya paste. Some Koreans eat little of the paste, but others indulge at the rate of five ounces or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cancer: A Clue from Under the Eaves | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

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