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Word: souped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frequent buying trips to Europe, he patrols four floors of highly variegated merchandise. His cheapest item is a 5? cork, his most expensive a $500 copper pot suitable for an entire sheep. Between these terminals is a treasury of the familiar and exotic. Prosaic pepper mills and soup bowls huddle with sophisticated croissant cutters and the French Cuisinart Food Processor, a $160 Rube Goldberg contraption for slicing and pulverizing just about anything. No device, no matter how arcane or costly, sits around for long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Mr. Pots and Pans | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

...somewhat less rustic, but the sexual gambits and Peyton Place plays enacted in the neighborhood serve as a source for lyrics that have won her a strong cult following. The lyrics produced by Minnie Riperton, 26, are a bit less worldly. Her songs about personal motivation, spiced with a soupçon of I'm O.K.-You're O.K. philosophy, are deliciously upbeat. Few miss the message, since several years of operatic vocal training have given her a five-octave range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll's Leading Lady | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

...mention skull and bones), Flash survives everything that Mongo's Ming the Merciless can throw at him: sacred droks, octosaks, shark men, iron men, hawk men, even Ming's insatiable daughter, Princess Aura. Forty years on, Dale still sounds like an escapee from a Campbell's Soup ad. Flash still does not get around to marrying her. Author-Illustrator Alex Raymond still seems to be some sort of genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Christmas Books: Looking Backward | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

...reader with the horrors of oldtime horse-traffic jams, railroad accidents, street crime, alcoholism, drug addiction and even home cooking. Writes Bettmann of that time: "The masses were forced to subsist on a crude and scanty diet of which tea and bread were staples, supplemented now and then by soup or stew of questionable origin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Christmas Books: Looking Backward | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

...Speaker Carl Albert offered an unnerving defense of the costly program that his fellow Democrats are talking up to help out faltering corporations and unemployed workers: "Someone said this is digging up F.D.R.'s New Deal. What if it is? It [the New Deal] got us off the soup lines, didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RECESSION: Gloomy Holidays--and Worse Ahead | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

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