Word: souped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rung or so below the problem novel on fiction's ladder stands the predicament novel. This type of fiction might also be called soup opera, since the hero or heroine usually gets in the soup in the first chapter and doesn't get out till the last. Soup-opera books have a further important characteristic: after modest-sized editions in hard covers, they go quickly into huge editions in paperback-and become the reading of millions. The Birds and the Bees by James Aswell is a typical sample of the species...
French Equatorial Africa is nearly four times the size of Texas. Population: about 4,000,000 near-savages, including Pygmies and the women shown in the U.S. by Ringling Bros, who stretch their lower lips to the size of soup plates. A few black "elites" are French citizens...
...those who don't agree, various independent companies put out kits with double downdraft carburetors, special manifolds, etc., to soup up Vance's eight-cylinder engine...
...breakfast the Borden family ate before Lizzie Borden allegedly took an ax and gave her parents 40 whacks: mutton stew or soup, sugar cookies and bananas...
...during the refectory silence, the pale, fastidious young novice burst out: "Oh, what lovely legs!" He referred, as he later told his superior, to the legs of an insect approaching his soup plate, but the fathers took a dark view of the matter. After further exposure to Rolfe's eccentricities, the fathers expelled...