Word: souped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army Field Forces are testing a new parachute which may all but eliminate it. The new T-10 chute has a canopy two feet larger (30 feet) than the chute now in use (which slows the rate of descent) and, instead of being circular, is shaped like a soup bowl with an extended skirt around its edge (which cuts down on the pendulum-like motion of the parachute...
...taking sides on hot political issues. Sutherland's owl, however, is made of stern stuff. By insisting in Fresh Laid Plans on exposing a community of farming chickens to the rigors of Fair Dealing price control, farm subsidies and other bureaucratic gimmicks, he landed the chickens in the soup and M-G-M spang in the center of the hottest political controversy in the farm belt...
Bighearted Molly Goldberg (played, as usual, by Author Gertrude Berg) still rules her clan with the same firm but pliant hand that stirs the big pots forever simmering on her stove. She never runs out of soup for the neighbors, malapropisms for the audience, or schemes for rearranging other people's lives. This time, almost wrecking her husband Jake (Philip Loeb) in the process, she regroups a romantic quadrangle involving an overage suitor and his pink-cheeked fiancee, a middle-aged widow and an eligible young...
They talked on Tuesday aboard the presidential yacht after lunch (sea food, soup, roast beef, braised celery, broccoli, beans, chicory salad, cheese & crackers, baked Alaskas, chocolates and assorted nuts). They talked again on Wednesday. At the White House, the Prime Minister passed, twinkling, through the gauntlet of correspondents. In his wake strode towering Ambassador Franks, shortening his ambassadorial step so as not to tread on the ministerial heels. On one occasion Mr. Attlee paused to pose, lighting his pipe. Some photographers missed the action and pleaded with him to light his pipe again. Said the Prime Minister...
...occasional notes to his "Dearest Mama," reassuring her that "it was only a 2 day cold in the nose." And to his wife ("Dearest Babs") he found time to send a teasing letter declaring that, after worrying all week whether she wanted "undies, dresses, hats, shoes, sheets, towels, rouge, soup plates, candy, flowers, lamps, laxation pills, whisky, beer, etchings or caviar" for their wedding anniversary, "I GIVE...