Word: souped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave Communism its soft face. Appointed Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament, he made a reputation as a "sincere" and "earnest" speechmaker, taught agrarian science at Budapest University, published books on theology, made no protest when his daughter married a practicing Protestant clergyman. By sitting around Budapest cafes fingering his soup-strainer mustache, talking soccer and politics, hinting that there were other methods of doing things than those adopted by Russians, he cultivated "liberal" attitude, but miraculously survived when (after Tito's defection from Stalin orbit in 1948) Soviet terror struck down Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk and hundreds of other...
...person as the "I" of the novel, Malone hears a "vast continual buzzing" in his ears and lapses into a kind of catatonic trance, in which he dimly realizes that the nurse-attendant is no longer bringing his soup or emptying the chamber pot. Finally, in the everyman guise of a man named Macmann, the hero is beaten with a stick by an asylum attendant and eventually dies...
...could not get work anywhere because I was ill. The Communist Party turned against us. Our neighbors never liked us because they knew my father was a Communist and was in the U.B. They would not help us. My mother went to church to ask for soup. Can you imagine how I felt? Did my family deserve this? It was poverty that made me steal. I had no other way out. (Suwart paused to wipe his face with a handkerchief, so the prosecutor asked another question: "Are you still a Socialist...
...campanile tolled, each nun was supposed to stop in her tracks, even to swallowing the syllable of an incomplete word, and move on to perform the appropriate devotion. Lapses of all kinds were confessed in a weekly culpa, and penances assigned, ranging from begging one's bowl of soup to kissing the feet of the ten oldest nuns. "Gaby" often found herself asking: "Am I truly called...
...merits of rum, and the shaggy Schweppesman who will drink anything plus tonic. Kangaroos sell airline tickets; giraffes promote Ethyl; Mr. Magoo plugs beer. Banks are using cartoons to encourage thrift. The low-key sell is not in itself new on the U.S. scene, e.g., JellO, Campbell's Soup and Coca-Cola have gentled readers for decades. But more and more advertisers are taking the position that an ounce of charm can be worth a pound of pressure...