Word: souped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occupation, mainly in California. He worked for everyone from the U.S. Navy to Sears. Roebuck, while she wrote news paper society columns, did merchandising work in radio. On the side, she ran the children's choir at the Alameda Presbyterian Church (she had the kids sing through Campbell soup cans, amplifying their voices considerably...
...York-Woolworth's, Klein's on Union Square, Masters discount house, and Ohrbach's ("copies of haute couture"}-and how to get by adequately on $12 to $13 a day. It suggests that tourists eat as Americans do-at drugstores, Howard Johnson's ("excellent soup of mussels,'' i.e., clam chowder), Chock Full O' Nuts ("that super-American institution''), and a hectic Broadway cafeteria named Hector's. The Budget-Baedeker adds that tourists need not worry, no matter how unprepossessing the restaurant, since "food is handled everywhere under conditions...
...scheme: a "peace corps" of "talented young men" to work in the world's poor countries for three years, as an alternative to the draft. Said he: "There is not enough money in all America to relieve the misery of the underdeveloped world in a giant and endless soup kitchen. But there is enough know-how and enough knowledgeable people to help those nations help themselves." Skeptics at once envisioned ponytailed coeds and crew-cut Jack Armstrongs playing Albert Schweitzer-an appalling army of innocents abroad. Nonetheless, Kennedy was flooded with enthusiastic letters. In a Gallup poll...
...Your article of July 25 left your readers with a definite and correct impression that I was in the "soup." In view of the occurrence at Hermann, Mo., January 19, would appreciate getting me out of the "soup" for your readers' sake-and mine...
...Borscht Sky. NBC once trumpeted its color programing with the argument (in an ad) that in a world without color, "pea soup would look exactly like borscht, and can you imagine London enshrouded in a borscht fog?" As if carried away with the notion, the network presented Dave Garroway's Today show against something magenta that could only have been a borscht sky. And at the other end of Color Day, The Jack Paar Show-which is tinted nightly and which in more than three years has remained immensely entertaining-seemed much the same, on or off-color...