Word: souped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italian partisans said that Holohan was murdered because he had refused to supply money and arms to Communist guerrillas; under the urging of Lieut. Icardi, members of Holohan's mission had fed him a bowl of poisoned soup. Holohan merely got sick. The plotters had then drawn lots, and LoDolce, the loser, had gone to the major's bedroom and coldblooded y fired two pistol bullets into his head. The body had been weighted and sunk in the icy waters of the lake; the police found it where the witnesses said it was, dredged it up, found...
Anthropologist Reichel-Dolmatoff states that a Kogi woman at night lures her husband "to lie down in the fields, threatening to cut off the soup if he refuses [TIME, July 28]." He then explains the Kogi man's aversion to sex stems from a cult of love for a world-mother spirit...
...disagree with the scientist and maintain that the Kogi male just doesn't like soup...
...British biochemist, who had devised Britain's palate-poor but vitamin-rich World War II diet of cabbage salads, carrots, grey wheaten bread, potato pastry, and dried eggs. Scientific adviser to wartime Food Minister Lord Woolton he had developed an emergency meal for the bombed-out called blitz soup, and later a predigested food for starved survivors of Hitler's prison camps. A quiet, modest but convivial man, Sir Jack (he refused to be known by his correct Christian names: John Cecil) had once collaborated with a government scientific worker in a book about English food, then married...