Word: souped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Must Be Proletarian." Tanya was three years old when the Russian Revolution started. One of her first experiences was hunger. "For months and months our diet . . . consisted of yellow maize flour, which was made into thin soup, thick porridge, or small buns. When the pangs of hunger became very acute, we ate a handful of raw, uncooked flour. It tasted sweet, but one got hiccups afterward...
When the long tables had been cleared, the workers ambled bashfully up to the platform and waited for the dinner. The spotlights went off and the waiters trooped in with silver urns full of Cream of Chicken Soup. There were also croutons which the Press Table's waiter managed to spread neatly all over the newsmen. Then came steaks with mushroom sauce, and lastly, "Ice Cream Ring Aux Fraises" complete with liqueur sauce. "You could get drunk on this," warned the reporter sitting next...
What was the origin of life on earth? Most biologists believe that it developed in a thin soup of organic compounds dissolved in an ancient sea. Today the seas contain no such stuff; if any is formed, it is at once destroyed by living organisms. But in the days before there were such organisms, molecules of sugars, proteins, etc. might have existed indefinitely. When two of them came in contact, they might join to form a larger molecule. Eventually, so goes the theory, a large, complicated molecule was formed that could grow by absorbing neighboring molecules and could also reproduce...
Bernard Clark was "rarther a presumshious man," but after one glance at Ethel he "turned a dark red." When Mr. Salteena ("lapping up his turtle soup") congratulated him on his "sumpshous house," Bernard proved himself a true aristocrat. "He gave a weary smile and swallowed a few drops of sherry wine. It is fairly decent he replied...