Word: souped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Geneva apartment, plumped down in a small private dining room before a table full of Swiss food, and talked to, straight from the shoulder, by two nervous, irritable statesmen whose friendship he valued, whose ability he recognized, whose view point he could understand. It was a dreadful meal. The soup got cold, the champagne warm, the roast greasy. Every few minutes the three diners rose from the table to telephone Rome, London or Paris. Between times they kept looking at their watches...
...cold night in 1931, his shabby clothing buttoned tightly about his short, diabetic body, a derelict named Driscoll lay on the floor of a boxcar in Seattle's railroad yards. For days he had hunted work. Weary, he had turned to bread lines, soup kitchens, listened to soap-box orators on corners of the Skidroad.* Deep into his dulled consciousness sank the speakers' catchphrases, their shouts of plenty for everyone, taunts at Big Business, cries that Capitalists were to blame for Derelict Driscoll's wrinkled belly...
...possible but always at the expense of a little greater disorganization. In such wise the total energy must go on being shuffled until no further shuffling is possible and its distribution is completely chaotic. Then the Universe will be a "uniform featureless mass in thermodynamic equilibrium"-a warmish, formless soup of aimless atoms and radiation in which nothing ever happens and Time, having lost every shred of meaning, rolls wearily on to infinity...
...Bartol Research Foundation and able popularizer (The Architecture of the Universe), took a group of distinguished hearers for a ride on the Second Law, got the Universe into an even worse state than Eddington's featureless mass, finally resurrected it. In Dr. Swann's vague soup there was not a particle of matter, all of it having been turned into radiation according to Einstein's sinister little equation, E = MC 2 . His thermodynamic-equilibrium Universe was therefore a vast sea of electromagnetic vibration, nothing more...
Last week farmers in ten Midwestern States had sand in their beards, in their hair, in their ears, in their eyes, in their mouths, in their pockets, in their pants, in their boots, in their milk, coffee, soup and stew. Dust poured through the cracks in farmhouse walls, under the doors, down the chimneys. In northwest Oklahoma a hundred families fled their homes. Every school in Baca County, Colo, was closed. In Texas the windswept hayfields were alive with blinded sparrows. Methodist congregations in Guymon, Okla. met three times a day to pray for rain._ Originally confined...