Word: souped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first-grade primer and Time magazine style. Efforts to render complex political shenanigans comprehensible lead to headlines like "Who's Doing What to Whom in Phenix City?" An interview with a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor last year contained this passage: "He sprinkled the crackers into his soup. Not too many crackers, and not too few. It was a middle-of-the-road sort of sprinkle...
...capital of Nuku'alofa, bringing baskets of mutton, lobsters, crabs and other delicacies for His Royal Highness. More than 3,000 pigs were roasted whole for the coronation-day dinner. Thirty huge turtles taken from pens outside the King's palace went into the royal soup. The Duke and Duchess of Kent, and Governor John A. Burns of Hawaii representing President Johnson, were among 3,000 guests who knelt on mats in the malae (palace park), ate (with fingers) such South Sea exotica as lupuhi -chicken and duck broiled in coconut sauce-and joined Tongans in consuming vats...
...cook an ostrich egg (boil it) or how to extract the flavor from a 6-in. vanilla bean (bury a 1-in. cutting from the bean for a month in a pound of sugar). Once when a hostess in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., complained that a case of turtle soup had not arrived, a Pierce salesman took an overnight train to deliver it in person - just in time for her party...
...Street broker, who in 1937 started baking whole-wheat bread on doctor's orders to ease her son's asthma, was soon besieged by neighbors and local dealers, and wound up with a business encompassing 57 products and $40 million annual sales before selling out to Campbell Soup in 1961 for $28 million; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn...
...Bond's rescue, joined shortly by American Indians parachuting from planes and shouting "Geronimo!", the French Foreign Legion, and a Mack Sennett-style squadron of period policemen. This kind of keystone cop-out was done faster and funnier 34 years ago when the Marx Brothers made Duck Soup. But in those days comedies consisted of scenes and not herds...