Word: souped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turtles to a seafood wholesaler near Paris for the bargain price of $2,200. Though pet lovers were worried at the news of this ominous sale, a company spokesman last week issued a calming statement: "These aren't the kind of sea turtles that go into soup. We are selling them to children, and we have already sold 8,000. By next week we will have sold 10,000. I can reassure everyone that this turtle story has a happy ending...
...return to the U.S., he was shot down. "They kept him alone in a tiny cell without even a cot," his father told TIME last week. "He had to sleep on a hard stone floor. In the mornings they'd serve him some gruel or pumpkin soup." Nevertheless, he mustered enough energy to study French and, according to Air Force Lieut. Colonel Kenneth North, imprisoned in a cell adjoining Brudno's, he seemed "in solid shape...
...Washington Post, Columnist Tom Donnelly reported coming across The Watergate Cookbook, written, he said, by people "deep in the soup" and featuring recipes for "purée of scoundrel, hush-money puppies and tongue à la Martha." Donnelly was only kidding; there is no such cookbook - not yet. But Howard Mercer, an inventor, and Joe Sugarman, an advertising executive, have created a slick card game called " Watergate Scandal: a game of cover-up and deception for the whole family." The pious instructions read: "To win: nobody in the Watergate Scandal wins. There are just losers. Once the cards are dealt...
ORIGINALLY an idealistic go-getter who fits neatly into the commercial world, the young man becomes transformed (by a prison term), into an idealistic do-gooder. It takes nearly two hours for this first transformation to occur, but the second is much more rapid. McDowell dishes soup to derelicts, who then attack him. He becomes disillusioned. He wanders through London until he sees a man walking around Picadilly Circus wearing a sandwich board which announces open casting for a new film. He goes to the casting room, is picked out of the crowd of would-be stars by director Lindsay...
...been devoted to knocking the President, has made room for some defenses as well. Ex-Nixon Speechwriter William Safire, whose debut as a regular Times columnist has suffered from the strain of Watergate, weighed in with a conversation between himself and his mother conducted over Mom's chicken soup. "Mom-if you can't be sure the President didn't know, do you think he should resign?" Her plucky reply: "Absolutely not. He has character, and if he didn't know, he should stay on and try to be the best President we ever had." Dwight...