Word: souped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rounds at Quemoy. Armed with burlap bags, the islanders have been collecting the shell fragments and selling them to Formosa at 3? per Ib. for scrap. In only a few minutes, even a child can pick up enough shards to buy himself a hot meal of pork and noodle soup...
Christmas is a good holiday. For the religious there is the renewed hope of redemption. For the others, the streets are lit up; children look forward to Santa Claus; the Salvation Army collects enough to fill soup bowls for another year; cynics have a special occasion on which they can be doubly cynical...
Backus hurtled off to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan, emerged in Depression-ridden 1933 when there were only six plays on Broadway. He ate one daily meal at an actors' soup kitchen, posed for sinister pictures in True Story Magazine. After several lean years, he got steady work in radio soap operas. He soon played in three shows a day at $30 apiece, often did 25 a week...
...distant past, and when she enters for the first time she has just broken off with a lover, whom we do not see. We are told that she likes hungry artists, that she disburses money as well as love, and that she acts as "a kind of emotional soup kitchen." Perhaps this line of characterization is put in to explain why, though it is a near thing, she refuses to enter the same kind of relationship with Dillon. But Ruth's situation is never adequately described or explained. Though as far as we know her she is interesting as well...
...Tequila, 35 miles away) and Sangrita, a tequila chaser made of a secret formula of tomato juice, lime juice, orange juice, sugar, salt, pepper, chilies and spices. The couples watch carefully as automatic cash registers whir up the week's purchases in toothpaste, carrots and dehydrated pimento soup - and then they stop by the Laundromat to pick up the washing...