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Word: souped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chose CUT UP, and a dentist picked SAY AHH. The owner of a mattress shop took SLEEP, a salvage contractor used JUNKIE, and a pharmacist chose PILL. Various Volkswagen owners have labeled their beetles LUV BUG, V-DBL-U and EL BUG. Ernest Campbell of Dallas could not resist SOUP, and Eli H. Lipton of the same city coyly selected T BAGS. Clergymen have embraced such identifications as 4 JESUS and TRY GOD. OOOOPS was the plate that one man rather cruelly chose for his accident-prone wife. But no Texas couple seems to have found quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Letterbugs | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

...weird way, this show exhales as musty and involuntary a breath of vanished time as any revival of neoclassicism. Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup can, once considered an icon of intimidating cool, has become a sort of madeleine. Irrevocably, the cachet of pop has gone, and many of its artifacts now look tenuous. It cannot be long before some enterprising museum (the Metropolitan?) opens a '60s Period Room, to go with its transplanted Louis Quinze paneling and reassembled colonial parlor: a Wesselmann and a Warhol Marilyn on the stainless-steel walls, a coffee table strewn with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Instant Nostalgia of Pop | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

Citizen Kane, A Touch of Evil, the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup and Horse Feathers, Stagecoach, and The 39 Steps. Call 868-3600 for times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge | 3/14/1974 | See Source »

Harvard's other departing senior, guard Ken Wolfe, terminated his tenure in Crimson hoop on a less triumphant note. In a pre-game meal, Sanders's only Mr. Consistent dropped a filling in his soup. A quick trip to a Providence dentist sealed the gap, but the cavity in his play remained, as Wolfe could muster only six points...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: Bruins Squeak by Cagers On Shot at Buzzer, 56-54 | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

Unhappily for the Republicans, the election was an almost perfect laboratory test of their prospects for the fall. "If it sells in Grand Rapids, it will sell anywhere," market researchers are fond of saying about an area where all kinds of products are routinely tested, from Lipton's soup to Cornnuts. In many ways, the district is a cross section of the U.S., with a varied mix of incomes and ethnic groups, a blue-collar class that is suffering from increasing unemployment and a not-so-silent majority that is outraged by inflation, long lines at gasoline stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: An Early Alarm Bell For the G.O.P. | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

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