Word: souped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixons, not known as epicures, banned lamb and even-that chefs delight-soup, serving what might be described as Cordon Red-White-and-Blue...
Political activity has also picked up. Today walls and monuments everywhere are plastered with a monarchist-to-Maoist alphabet soup of obscure fringe parties, including, among others, M.R.P.P., C.D.S., P.P.M. and P.S.D.I. All seem to be catching up on a half-century of political intrigues, cabals and power plays. But in so doing they have exacerbated the country's debilitating political instability...
...film version of Peter Benchley's bestselling novel Jaws, about a beach resort beset by a rampaging shark. The producers would like to keep their star under wraps. "It's like The Exorcist, " says Director Steven Spielberg. "If everybody knew that that kid was really vomiting pea soup, they wouldn't have been shocked." Anyway, much of the movie's shark footage will use real fish. Bruce is for close-up action of limb tearing, boat bashing and man eating that will inspire "40 minutes of uninterrupted terror and excitement...
...test, a small sample of Martian soil will be partially submerged in a nutrient-rich solution (called "chicken soup" by the experimenters). If any Martian organisms grow in the broth and give off carbon dioxide or other common byproducts of respiration-like life processes, instruments will detect these chemicals. In another test, soil will be exposed to a nutrient containing radioactive carbon 14. If any microorganisms consume the nutrient and give off carbon-bearing gases as metabolic wastes, those wastes will be radioactively "tagged" and readily identified. Lastly, a Martian soil sample will be exposed to xenon "sunlight...
...soup arrives lukewarm, dessert does not arrive at all, and the bill bears little relation to what was ordered. Even so, the restaurant patron is likely to add 15% to the check for the waiter or waitress, then go home grumbling about the injustices of tipping. For the dissatisfied diner who is too timid to complain aloud, there is a palatable remedy: a union of restaurant victims called Tippers International...