Word: souped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...owns $1.8 million worth of Textron stock and collects $400,000 in annual salary and bonuses, Miller lives in an unpretentious three-bedroom house in Providence's east side and often takes a bus to work. He normally lunches at his desk on crackers and Campbell's soup. About the only luxuries the Millers allow themselves are a regular winter vacation in the Bahamas, a summer place near Cape Cod and a weekly seat at New York's Metropolitan Opera...
...plots, and the precious water is still raised from the river by having a cow or blind-folded water buffalo turn a primitive screw or a crude wooden lift balanced by a weight of mud. The ordinary meal of an Egyptian fellah still consists of foul beans; moulekieh, a soup made of the greens that grow among cotton plants, is a dish reserved for special days...
...daily walk. In his blue and white sneakers, he strode along the Nile for one hour, a valuable time when he likes to think. Then he took his regular rubdown from a masseur who is also one of his bodyguards. Lunch was, as always, a bowl of soup. For nourishment during the day Sadat drinks liquids constantly: fruit juice, minted tea and a lightly carbonated European cola. A devout Muslim, he never touches liquor or wine...
...insists that Tromelin "is part and parcel of our territory, and always has been.'' In fact, Mauritius' claim -dates back only to 1959. nine years before the nation won independence from Britain. Last year, after learning that France intended to cultivate the Tromelin turtles for soup and tortoise shells, Sir Seewoosagur handed a note to his French ambassador reaffirming Mauritian sovereignty. Among other "proofs," the Prime Minister cited some unique documents that the World Court may be called on to examine: guano-gathering permits issued between 1901 and 1956 refer to the bird-bedecked island...
Philadelphia is known for its soft pretzels (eaten with mustard), snapper soup (eaten with sherry) and heroic sandwiches (eaten with trepidation, and called hoagies). Last week another item-well-dressed cheesecake-was added to the local menu when Canadian Publisher Pierre Péladeau served up his new Philadelphia Journal, a breezy morning tabloid with an initial circulation of 200,000. The Journal's salient contribution to the state of journalism is a daily Philly filly on page 7, fully clothed but flashing a thigh, a kneecap or some other item of civic pride. The paper devotes nearly half...