Word: souped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attracted considerable attention as a satirical TV yarn about a man from a distant and civilized planet who. via flying saucer, visits his "hobby," the Earth. It later aroused considerable speculation as to how, without being sadly watered down, a good saucerful of TV fun could fill a regulation soup bowl of a play. The problem has been solved, on the whole quite happily, by not turning Visit to a Small Planet into a play. It has been turned, instead, into a kind of vaudeville show, with two expert comedians, Cyril Ritchard and Eddie Mayehoff, handling the routines...
...another landed by prearrangement in England. Every detail had been attended to: worldwide communications and weather services, precisely timed geographical check points, State Department clearance, stand-by refueling planes. For the flyers themselves, there was steak (cut into bite-size pieces), canned chicken, ice-cold milk, fruit juice, soup, freshly baked cakes, candy bars. At four or five strategic places along the route (the exact number is secret), the jet-age birds dropped down from their 40,000-ft.-plus altitude to drink in tons of fuel, delivered at prop-age altitudes by four-engined KC-97 Stratotankers,* then, with...
...Original Soup. Best theory of how life began assumes that the earth once had a "reducing" atmosphere of methane, ammonia, hydrogen and water, as the outer planets have now. Solar radiation and lightning, according to the theory, turned this mixture into organic molecules which gradually grew complex enough to form replicas of themselves. Such reproducing molecules, however simple, are alive...
...Miller of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons told how he filled a glass container with the gases that were presumably present in the earth's primitive atmosphere. Then he shot electric sparks through them to simulate lightning. In a week he had an organic soup in which he identified nine amino acids, four of which are constituents of proteins found in living organisms. Dr. Miller concluded that nature's first chemical step toward life creation was rather surprisingly easy...
Good Fellowship. A Red Cross lunch of soup, bread, cheese and sliced sausage was about to be served when the visitor entered the camp dining hall. It was promptly forgotten as photographers and newsmen milled among the refugees who were swarming to greet the caller. Holding his own bravely in the melee, Nixon had a word or a smile or a handshake for anyone who could reach him. "I wish we had time to greet you all personally," he said. The refugees responded with a rousing, "Long live Hungarian-American friendship...