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Word: souped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Greene's fourth novel), but an Orient Express without the Conrad Veidt monocles or the concupiscent dancers in the wagonlit. Just the respectable Mr. Pulling, smoking his first stick of pot, gift of an American girl who calls herself Tooley. With a boy friend who paints Brand X soup cans and a father in the CIA, Tooley is the ultimate in flower-child hippiedom. The pot she gives poor Pulling happens to have been pushed to her by Wordsworth. Pulling is taking his first trip with Mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hamlet's Aunt | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

...brand of happiness that costs about $5. Gund has been putting laughing boxes inside stuffed animals since 1954, but it wasn't until this year that the company sent them out to go it alone. "Our first buyers," Kay reports, "were wary. But it's like making soup. You make enough for four people, and when everybody asks for more you look in the pot and there isn't any left." Last week, with over 1,000,000 pieces shipped and another 300,000 in production, Kay's pot was bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Laugh Tycoon | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

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