Word: souped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Slipping into foodservice-ese, he predicted there would be "certain less expensive dishes--more casserole-type presentations, perhaps, and more sandwich-soup-type presentations." He said, however, that the Food Services Department would serve to "maintain the current variation in the menu cycle" as much as possible...
...Duck Soup...
Crick and Orgel also ask why there is only one genetic code for terrestrial life. If creatures sprang to life in some great "primeval soup," as many biologists believe, it is surprising that organisms with a number of different codes do not exist. In fact, Crick and Orgel say, the existence of a single code seems to be entirely compatible with the notion that all life descended from a single instance of directed panspermia...
...favorable date for his departure), got invited to lunch at the castle of Heinrich Himmler, commander of the concentration camps and the SS. Wulff was impressed by "the cordiality of his welcome" but dismayed by Himmler's "lack of breeding." The Reichsführer SS sat "sucking his soup like a peasant...
...President moved in the nick of time." This early misjudgment launched Safire on a string of lurches and pratfalls as the Watergate story dragged him steadily downhill. There was Safire listening to his mother defend the President's integrity while she dished up bowls of steaming chicken soup ("My God," said one Timesman opposed to Safire's hiring, "we've got a dozen better chicken-soup men"). There was Safire claiming ultimate victory for Nixon after John Dean testified before the Ervin committee: "The eye of the storm has passed, and Mr. Nixon did not blink...