Word: souped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Auschwitz, he was physician in charge of a block where psychotics, imbeciles, invalids and the aged were housed. "Because the portions of bread, cheese, sausage or margarine were never equally cut," Dr. Cohen recalls, "I could, and did, always choose the thickest. During the ladling out of the soup, the stirring was always done horizontally, so that the thick remained at the bottom. I always took care to get only the thick . . . The motivation I gave myself, namely that I had more value than the patients, didn't hold water, of course...
...cooked it anyway, in pea soup. Bohling tasted it, smacked his lips, pronounced it very good. Then, in a gesture of generosity befitting the occasion, he passed samples of it around to his neighbors...
...will die with him. "They will no longer know how to cast a grande piece in its entirety," he said sadly. "They will cast arms, heads and legs and patch them together." His workers agree. "When the chef de cuisine dies," said one, "the restaurant will go on serving soup, but it won't be exactly the same soup any more...
...growing slump in Britain's textile industry (see below). In the soot-stained towns of Lancashire, cotton mills by the score had shut down their looms. Said Labor M.P. Harry Hynd: "The people see the specter ... of the dole queues forming again, and the return of the soup kitchens and pawnshops...
...Matter of Course. In Newark, the court ruled out the plea for alimony in Mrs. Anna Herkaler's separation suit after it learned that the original quarrel began when she served her husband a bowl of soup made from his pet pigeons...