Word: souped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late one convention morning, an irate delegate finally jumped up, shouted that the convention was an issue-dodging fake. The convention heard him out. Then the chairman announced: "We have now earned our lunch. Guten Appetit" And with that, everyone trooped off to a meal of mushroom soup, rolled beef bürgerlich and grape tart with whipped cream...
...Rasmussen, 21, and her fiance, Steven Rockefeller, 23, son of New York's Governor, seemed calmer than anyone else about their wedding. But to evade newshounds, they frequently took to the hills, abandoned Steve's telltale motorcycle for a car, fled from a restaurant right after the soup when a photographer surprised them at the table. Young Rockefeller's parents, once the employers of Mia in their Manhattan town house, were expected to arrive in Sogne this week in good time to help plan the nuptials, reception and banquet...
...done it under almost impossible circumstances. He took over the leadership job after the worst Republican defeat since the sunflower campaign of Kansas' Alf Landon went to seed in 1936. Dwight Eisenhower, barred from seeking a third term, looked like lame-duck soup to the lopsided Democratic majority in Congress. House and Senate Republicans were fighting among themselves, seemed incapable of forming a line of defense against the war-dancing Democrats...
...Macmillan and Lloyd in Aspen Cottage's paneled living room. There, in the large room with its sofas, easy chairs, bridge tables, and huge fireplace bearing the presidential seal, most of the Eisenhower-Macmillan talks took place. They began after a 45-minute Eisenhower nap and lunch (tomato soup, cheese souffle, cottage pudding with lemon sauce). The first day, Herter, Lloyd, U.S. Ambassador to London John Hay Whitney and British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia also participated in some of the discussions. Ike called for Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy, Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles, Atomic Energy Commission...
...income tax evasion. But Longie was no rap-rack (six months behind bars in his life): he lived in the white space around the letter of the law. Married to a handsome blonde Junior Leaguer, he was civic-minded, gave thousands to help the blind, financed soup kitchens. Recently he held an interest in the vending-machine business, was scheduled to appear before the McClellan committee. Also, the FBI has arrested several of his friends for bribing the jury that in 1956 failed to find Longie guilty of income tax evasion...