Word: souped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's letter last spring told the Employment Commission that the required survey would do more harm than good. One University official said yesterday that "they seem to be throwing a rock into the soup. We're operating peacefully, bending over backwards not to discriminate, and the Government is only stirring things...
Angry Jumpers. For the contestants, there were frustrations as well as rewards. After living on soup and sandwiches and sleeping on army cots for three weeks, the sky divers were in no mood for philosophic acceptance of Operation Sky Shield, which grounded all civilian aircraft for five hours on the championship's last day of jumping, cutting the last events finals in half. The Russians led an Iron Curtain bloc that argued in favor of using the foreshortened time for individual jumping, instead of the shorter team accuracy event that U.S. contestants were counting on to raise their overall...
...Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Art and science are similar exercises in demonstration, not experiment. Instead of spontaneous sketching, the kids dutifully copy reproductions of the masters; Fuller shows scientific phenomena with a Sterno can and a toy physics kit. Fuller prepares lunch himself-usually canned soup, fruit, bread, butter and milk. The kids say grace in Russian, eat at their desks, and return their plates (scraped) to Fuller in the kitchen. If they stick to this Spartan routine through high school, Fuller is sure, colleges will shower them with "a multitude of scholarships." Exam for Parents...
...Meanwhile, back yonder in Texas, Billie Sol kept getting himself deeper into the soup. He was arrested in Abilene last week after driving his white 1961 Cadillac 1) through a stop sign, 2) the wrong way into a one-way street, 3) without a driver's license. On the way to the station house, he complained to the cop who had pinched him: "I've been blamed for a lot of things I didn't do. A lot of things are not true. I respect the law all the way." That statement has not yet been definitized...
...Respectively, a puppet, and hence "a politician acting under an outsider's order"; a Scottish word for common sense; a soup for prisoners or sailors; a mixture of rum and spruce beer; and a blockhead...