Word: souped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breakfast might consist of one dry cracker washed down with cold water and honey; her lunch varied from grass tea and pea soup ("Fit for a king!" he exclaimed, smacking his lips) to a wide assortment of nuts, fruits, vegetable juices and interminable strips of raw carrot...
...that was almost bearable," he continued. "But when they told me they were going to vast me for their annual dinner, that was the last straw. 'Roast Ibis.' Ugh," he shuddered. "Imagine it--eaten like an ordinary bird. For soup, they were planning to have 'Ibis bisque...
Marine Captain George Roy Hill, on a routine training flight, was flying through a pea-soup fog toward Atlanta's Candler Airport. With the field socked in and his instruments out of order, he had to make his landing with the help of GCA (Ground Controlled Approach), the radar landing system. By voice radio, the operator on the field furnished Pilot Hill with simple verbal instructions, and Hill brought his plane in for a perfect landing-even though the field was so fogbound that a jeep sent out to lead him to a hangar was unable to find...
Perpetual Games. From 9 to 5, with an hour off for a bowl of soup, Ave Maria's students play at their perpetual games. And with his black cape flapping behind him, Father Pedro strides among them, swinging his schoolmaster's pointer, stopping to laugh and chat just as his uncle once did. "We have followed the path he has traced for us," says he. "It is a path of laughter, fun and achievement...
...Louis Brustein, Bridgeport, Conn., attributes to his wife an unusual aptitude: her patience in peeling onions. "This vegetable has a lot to do with journalistic success. When people are helpful in getting stories for TIME, we always gift them with a gallon or so of my superspecial onion soup ... I love to make onion soup, but hate to peel and slice the onions...