Word: souped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soup Kitchens. Even if they had wanted to carry out a campaign of revenge and terror, Communist forces had little time for retribution. They had more than enough work trying to restore the captured cities and towns to normal operation. In Danang, according to a South Vietnamese businessman who was there after the fall and then made his way to Saigon, the normal population of 500,000 was swollen to almost twice that number by refugees. Military government experts were preoccupied with getting the refugees back to their homes; bus service has already been established from Danang and Qui Nhon...
...before the Communists seized the old imperial capital. Dozens of planes and helicopters had been abandoned at Hué's airport. Aging Queen Mother Doan Huy, 86, was treated with respect by the arriving soldiers, the reporter said, but part of her palace was converted into a hospital. Soup kitchens were set up in public squares and even bicycles were commandeered to bring in food...
...Soup. Such books are known in the trade as "show tie-ins," and by the debased standards of the genre these are well done. But what would happen if the show went in for "book tie-ins" and the Bellamys had to cope with a passel of bestselling authors belowstairs...
...would profit from the occasion by borrowing ten ners from a suddenly flush Hudson. As for Mrs. Bridges, it is obvious that the good woman's recipe book would be come an alltime seller, she would retire to the Cotswolds - and Upstairs, Down stairs would be in the soup...
...spokesman estimated that approximately 200 people participated in the soup line...