Word: souped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chartered by the committee (he insisted that the presidential plane Columbine should not be used for traveling to a Republican Party affair), but rain and fog kept him grounded. Instead, he rode in a special train (paid for by the G.O.P.). Missing out on the $100 banquet fare (turtle soup, filet mignon, ice cream, New York State champagne), he dined on the train, then changed into his dinner jacket to face the microphones...
...complained that her back hurt. Then he took her to the Treasure Isle Pool, where the children did conditioning work five days a week. Lifeguard Dick Kohler reported that she had "bruises all over her" and "wasn't feeling well." Russ fed her a can of baby soup. She vomited. Then Russ told her to go into the water. She did. the lifeguard recalled, although she cried while she was swimming and didn't stay in long...
...dramatic counterpart is mostly coincidental. In the movie, the fictional events range from suspense (Who is the Nazi spy posing as an American prisoner in Barracks 4?) to out & out slapstick (P.W.s making schnapps out of potato peelings and string, washing socks in a pot of watery soup, lining up at a homemade telescope to gawk at Russian women prisoners taking delousing showers...
There are reasons. At their lowest, U.S. wages seem high to the Mexican border jumper. And in recent years, poor men in all corners of Mexico have heard dazzling tales of the wonders and luxuries to be had in los Estados Unidos-canned chicken soup, pink nylon panties to be taken home to wives and girl friends, sweet paste (wonder of wonders) for scrubbing the teeth, and the little brush to squirt it on. Many a wetback, returning to a small Mexican village, has been hailed as a hero, and has been trailed by every able-bodied man in town...
...chute." Though his joints cracked like muskets when he did his one-legged heave-ups, he was determined to outlive any other man of his generation and be a second Napoleon. Not that he approved entirely of Napoleon. Bonaparte, he used to say, "filled himself full of onion soup and brandy before the battle of Waterloo. That fixed him for keeps...