Word: souped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inmate would scamper away on all fours. Then he was shot in the back. While the police dogs at Auschwitz slept in warm, clean kennels with concrete floors, humans were housed in filthy, crowded barracks where they lapped the muddy floor for a few drops of spilled soup...
...those meals that look funny in the movies. The family of four got a table in the U.N. Delegates' Dining Room-and here came the waitress, all snarls, and spilled soup. Crash! Down slammed the food. Zip! It was whisked away before anyone was finished. "And how was the meal, sir?" asked the manager. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, 45, couldn't help blowing off steam, so much in fact that the waitress was summarily fired. And when her case came up for review, Freeman reluctantly confirmed his complaint. She was "very cross, curt and sullen," he wrote...
...compensations-and Miler O'Hara manages to make the most of them. On his way from the airport to last week's New York Athletic Club Games, he remembered that he had not had dinner. Stopping off at a Manhattan restaurant, he ate a bowl of vegetable soup, a thick sirloin steak, and a heaping plate of mashed potatoes. Then he went out and ran the fastest indoor mile in history...
Four big U.S. companies-Campbell Soup, Carborundum, General Foods and Grumman-have already left Switzerland because of local restrictions. If the Swiss Parliament adopts the federal government's tough new program next month, as it is expected to, the exodus of U.S. companies is likely to increase. But the Swiss seem to prefer a possible drastic slowdown in their economy to the risk that foreigners might bring on further inflation...
...chairman of first-ranking Aluminum Co. of America. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and Harvard ('23), he tramped the jungles of Latin America and Africa as a geologist in search of bauxite, learned to speak five languages and eat such delicacies as parrot soup, struck oil for Alcoa in Texas and along the way found time to be an athlete (rowing), amateur artist, rider and hunter. Since he moved up from president last April, he has spent most of his time "thinking, talking and listening about marketing and sales." Last week Litchfield raised hundreds of Alcoa products...