Word: souped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vats in which sliced bacon was being boiled for the noon meal. "Take this equipment that's just broken down: a million dollar series of pumps, pipes, and filters just to transfer thousands of gallons of dishwater from the dishwashing rooms into the huge kettles of the soup kitchens, where color and vegetables are added...
...buying a season ticket-and even that, like joining a country club, takes years of waiting. Green Bay's youngsters save their pennies in kiddy banks in the shape of green-and-gold-suited Packers. Portraits of Packer players hang on soda fountain walls; restaurant diners eat their soup off "Know-Your-Packers" doilies. The pastors of some Green Bay churches end their sermons with a short, earnest prayer "for our Packers," and the police force feels the same way. "The only crime here." says Chief Elmer Madson, "is when the Packers lose...
...stories are both written and illustrated by Sendak, who is the Picasso of children's books, and each of them has a function: one teaches counting, another the alphabet, a third offers a strong moral (you should care), and the fourth praises the wonders of chicken soup with rice...
...Gaulle returns to his own apartments by 8 p.m., watches the TV news, and then usually dines with his wife and other relations whenever there is no state banquet. Like the lunches, dinners are simple and quick. De Gaulle is fond of soup, and huffily remarks that the Elysée blends are inferior to those prepared by his Colombey cook, Philoméne. He also dotes on a special beef stew that the family calls "stewed Salan's head.'' Dinner over, De Gaulle may watch a private screening of a movie (preferably a comedy...
Partisan Aim. The latest old Etonian to call public attention to the soup stains on the old school tie is 24-year-old David Benedictus. Brought out in England last June to coincide with the date of the school's fanciest annual party (from which it takes its title), the book caused a small but predictable stir. Liberal reviewers used it to launch an impassioned appeal for school reform. Conservative critics, many of them older Etonians than the author, shrilly denounced him for sensationalism. They were offended by an incident in which a student sells his handsome younger brother...