Word: souped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...framed Teamster constitutions that sapped power from local unions and centralized it in conferences and national officers. CJ Seattle's Sam Bassett, 61, a quarter-century Beck intimate, arranged secret Teamster loans to truckers, joined Teamster officials in borrowing union funds to make a killing on Campbell Soup stock...
...Reluctant Debutante. Rex Harrison and Wife Kay Kendall, ducking m and out of the soup in Director Vincente Minnelli's lighthearted peek at Mayfair manners and amorals (TIME...
...Japanese-held Marshall Islands. It was only days after they put to sea again that they discovered the Japanese had punctured all their cans of food in a search for contraband. Heaving the rotting" food overboard, they lived for a month on a few fish and a soup made of axle grease, curry powder and water. When they finally staggered ashore at Molokai, their delirium and ravaged appearance sent the lepers of Father Damien's colony fleeing in terror...
...from the start. Calm, calculating Marion ("Mickey") Thompson had put together an $8,000 streamliner that seemed to howl with speed just standing still. For push-pull power, Thompson remade two 1957 Chrysler engines and geared the first to the front wheels and the second to the back. To soup up the engines to a total of 850 h.p., Thompson and his buddy, Fred Voigt, added a magneto to each for hot-spark firing (standard ignition gradually weakens as engine speed increases), lengthened the piston strokes by five-eighths of an inch, rebored the cylinders and boosted the compression ratio...
...Reluctant Debutante. Rex Harrison and Wife Kay Kendall, a spicy broth of a girl, ducking in and out of the soup in Director Vincente Minnelli's lighthearted peek at Mayfair manners and amorals (TIME...