Word: souped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teams last clinched when it was 26-all with five minutes showing in the half, but the Lions' scoring binge landed the Crimson in the soup to stay, as they trailed 35-31 at the halftime buzzer...
...retaliation, U.S. presidential hopefuls may be tempted to emulate France's Nicolas Chauvin and cry a pox on all alien coinages. Admittedly many of these words and phrases are silly, frilly, misused and mispronounced by Yanks; they range, without any particular élan or éclat, from soupçon and soupe du jour to déjà vu and á la almost anything. However, there are hundreds of French words imbedded in the English language for which there are no substitutes-even the politician may find it hard to oppose the tongue that makes him élite...
...unravel that alphabet soup, Author-Physician Michael Crichton (The Great Train Robbery, The Andromeda Strain) recently looked over some back issues of the New England Journal of Medicine. Crichton, who wrote novels even during his days at Harvard Medical School (class of 1969), was appalled by what he read. The style, he reported in the Journal, was "as dense, impressive and forbidding as possible." Examples...
...almost oil-free (sharks store all their fat in their liver), is rich in vitamins and minerals and contains almost as much protein as canned tuna. Shark is a highly esteemed food in the Mediterranean, the West Indies, the Orient (indeed, delicately flavored shark's fin soup is a standard dish in U.S. Chinese restaurants) and Latin America, where savory dried and smoked shark meat is known as bacalao de tiburón. In England, vast quantities of dogfish, a small shark, are sold in fish-and-chips shops...
...business: could that chubby kid with the wet look who dated pubescent Mousketeer Annette Funicello really have been smart? Paul was the son of a Lebanese restaurateur in Ottawa, but he was only hungry for success. At 14, he won a three-day trip to Manhattan in an IGA soup contest ("I collected the most labels"). One bite of the Big Apple made him want more. Within two years Paul was back, with $100 from his father and six songs tucked under his arm. He was dossing down in a friend's bathtub when ABC-Paramount Records gave...