Word: souped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...average Brazilian, party politics is about as sensible as alphabet soup: no fewer than 14 machine-controlled parties, each known popularly by its two-or three-letter initials, provide more than enough confusion for any ordinary citizen. Effective action in Congress is chronically hobbled by interparty bickering and mercurial coalitions. "Our politics have not surpassed tribal primitivism," admits José Eduardo Kelly, a founder of U.D.N. (National Democratic Union), one of the parties in President Humberto Castello Branco's current coalition...
...Kremlin seems to agree, despite protests from old-line ideologues and planners. Last week Pravda blasted kopeck-pinching regulations that forbid any restaurant in Russia, from Moscow's vast Ukraina to the smallest cafe in Siberia, to spend more than $5.50 a day on soup greens. Urged Pravda: "Priority must be given to economic methods of management." The government now plans to do just that. Retail stores and restaurants in half a dozen Russian cities will be given a free hand to cut or increase sales staffs, improve displays and boost promotion budgets. "Advertising always pays," intoned Komsomolskaya Pravda...
...Monica Vitti, brooding about fate in The Soup, mocks her own sullen beauty with surprising verve as an impoverished young wife yearning to rid herself of a wretched husband who slurps and belches at mealtime. She is "lucky enough to be hit by a car," and invests her meager insurance money in a series of hired killers, some dishonest, some amorous, none very efficient...
...first live radio coverage of combat; once, he installed himself in a haystack on the battlefield so that listeners could hear the crackle of gunfire. For 20 days during the Munich crisis in 1938, he scarcely budged from his CBS studio in New York, where he subsisted on onion soup and slept on a cot. He provided running translations of the speeches of Hitler and Mussolini as they came over short wave and analyzed them on the spot. He saw the significance of Munich and warned his audiences accordingly: "Hitler always says after each of his conquests...
...system certified as airworthy by the Federal Aviation Agency is one developed by Boeing and the Bendix Corp., but it has not yet been used commercially. The British are understandably first. London Airport is fogged in at least a dozen full days each winter, and some days the pea soup is so thick that even a taxiing plane gets lost on the field...