Word: souped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign being carried on for Bukovsky in the West. The prison grapevine quickly carried the news of Bukovsky's dramatic month-long hunger strike. Before and after his fast, Bukovsky, like other prisoners, received only minimal fare. Lunch consisted of thin gruel, while dinner was a watery, acid soup. Inmates also received ¾ oz. of sugar and 2 oz. of salted fish per day. "It's rotten fish," Bukovsky recalled. "I don't know what sea they catch it in, but I couldn...
...very much, all of us, involved in these problems and have to work on them together. When a country devalues its currency purely to solve a domestic economic problem, it's another way of practicing protectionism. One country follows another, and pretty soon we are all in the soup...
...members have been bird-dogging the transition story as well. John Stacks, who kept track of the Carter and Mondale staff operations during the campaign, was first to disclose a rift between key advisers on Carter's postelection team. Sometimes a crumb of information is dropped between the soup and nuts at a Georgetown dinner party. At one such soirée, Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter learned that former L B J Staffer Joseph Califano had been asked to go secretly to Plains to talk with the President-elect. The tipoff: Califano was tracked down at the same...
Buffalo Tongue. The book is a social history of New World food from Indian pemmican and succotash to the TV Dinner. Its basic approach is a soup-to-nuts chronology, including chapters on restaurants, drinking habits and "The Great American Sweet Tooth." Sweetness, the authors argue, is a dominant flavor on the national palate, partly traceable to England where treacle tarts are frequently washed down with heavily sugared tea. The Pilgrim forebears sat down to Thanksgiving dinners that were liberally drenched in maple syrup...
...Nineties gorging at Delmonico's in New York are not only legendary but hard to believe. Is it possible that one man could have eaten at one sitting the following: two to three dozen giant oysters, half a dozen crabs, two bowls of green turtle soup, six lobsters, two portions of terrapin, two ducks, one sirloin steak plus vegetables, and a tray of French pastry (size unknown)? It is difficult to know if this was breakfast, lunch or supper, for Brady reputedly ate six times...