Word: souped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soup: borsch...
...Deputy Mayor Henry Epstein of New York City tossed a group of local educators two questions for which no one seemed to have any answers. "How is it," he asked, "that the same youngsters who flunk shop courses are able to 'soup up' old jalopies with hand-tooled carburetors? And why are boys failures at making book ends but successes in crafting zip guns out of scrap...
Working nights, he went to high school and then to Wayne University, came out of classes frothing ideas. When the Depression hit Detroit, he reacted with a surge of Socialist hope and a sense of historic urgency. Excitedly, he joined picket lines and soapboxed at breadlines, organized soup kitchens and leftist student clubs. In the 1932 presidential campaign, he mounted a rear platform on his old Ford coupé and campaigned for Socialist Norman Thomas...
After the "trial," Father Leoni was sent to a prison camp, Mordovia, between Moscow and the Urals. "There, hunger was our constant companion. Every day they gave us 20 ounces of rye bread, two cups of tea and two dishes of 'Volga.' We called the soup they gave us 'Volga' because it was nothing but water. On this diet the prisoners were expected to do heavy labor -mostly cutting lumber in the forest around the camp. Nonetheless, I succeeded in carrying out my mission as a priest-secretly. A Hungarian turner who was Catholic found...
...fierce as its wind, as biting as its rain. Bessie was born 55 years ago in its working-class district, where one cold-water tap in the courtyard often served a whole block of houses. Her mother was a Labor Party worker and a social worker, ladling out soup from "St. George's Plateau (atop the steps of a Liverpool concert hall), and one of Bessie's earliest memories is the look on hungry faces when the soup ran out. When she went to her first job at 15, she remembers her mother calling after...