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Word: souped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kicks him "just for being so useless, I guess." A former Virginia television personality endured a 26-year marriage to a woman who regularly punched him in the groin and face while he was driving. Once she bashed his head open with two cans of Campbell's pepperpot soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: The Battered Husbands | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...miracle-chip brain of the check-out computer is amazingly versatile. If, for example, a customer buys two cans of tomato soup priced at two for 49?, the computer will charge 25? for the first can that crosses the eye. Then, no matter how many different items have been handled in between, when the second can passes across the eye, the computer-remembering the first-will charge only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Society: Checking Out Tomorrow | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...because there are not enough reserve books in Lamont or free toilet paper for the River Houses--or because the deans make up students' minds with only token input from an amorphous alphabet-soup-bowl-full of so-called student-faculty committees...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: You Can Save Harvard ... Or You Can Turn the Page | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

...increasing faster than student v. student assaults. In one incident last November, a woman math teacher in a New Haven junior high accosted a 14-year-old girl in the cafeteria line after the student insulted a cafeteria worker. The girl wheeled round, flung her tray of hot soup and mashed potatoes into the teacher's face and began to punch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The ABCs of School Violence | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...just goes to prove that some of the most sincere and useful lectures to be heard around Boston are not always given by Harvard professors or Washington hucksters. Deger, better known as Bob the Bagman by those who frequent the Boston Commons or the Stone Soup Gallery in Boston's West End, was at one time a nuclear engineer for the federal government. Last week he died, 55 years old and homeless after roaming Boston for five years as a "street...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Blues for the Bagman | 1/12/1978 | See Source »

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