Word: souped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assigned to work as a physician," he said, "[but it] was just sham practicing, because there were no drugs and no facilities ... A physician's duties were just to find out whether a man was able to work." On a diet consisting largely of millet-seed soup and bread adulterated with sawdust, many prisoners died of scurvy and pellagra. Sturdy men in their 20s would sicken within a few months, lose their teeth and break out in unhealing sores. "The only thing I could do," said Dr. Devenis, "[was to try to extract vitamin C from] pine needles...
According to a 1945 presidential decree, all Argentine restaurants, even such famed luxury resorts as the grill rooms at the Plaza and the Alvear Palace Hotels in Buenos Aires, are required to list and serve the menú econímico. This 32? meal typically consists of uninspired soup, a snarl of spaghetti, nondescript fish and a tired banana...
Coffin Torture. For three years, Merlino, 49, and Faticati, 45, lived in cold, dirt and hunger they had never known in Naples. There were 10,000 prisoners in the camp, crowded like cattle, 40 or 50 to a room. They got only potato soup, carrots and 200 grams of bread for their daily meal. Their letters, to their families and Communist friends in Italy, to Hungarian Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi, were not delivered. One day Faticati had a nervous breakdown; he screamed and cried for his four children. When the guards came, Merlino went to defend his comrade...
...tossed a fat slab of sausage into the frying pan. "We're gonna put on the big pot and the little one too. Keith Marrs is gonna bake a fruit cake-Ed loves fruit cake. We'll have fried chicken with lots of gravy. Ed likes soup beans, too; we'll have some of those...
Slimming Sweetener. A liquid, sugar-free food sweetener in a plastic, "squeeze-a-drop" bottle is being marketed for overweight and diabetic Americans by E. R. Squibb & Sons. Made from saccharin, Squibb's "Sweeta" can cut a 900-calorie dinner (soup, chicken en casserole, rice, peas, salad, chocolate-frosted cake) down to 550 calories. Price...