Word: souped
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...