Word: souped
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Eventually Gorbachev retired to the nearby Marigny Palace to change for a state dinner. When the Soviet First Couple returned to the Elysee, Mitterrand and Gorbachev staged a public reprise of several elements of their private chat. After a meal of oyster soup, sole a la Dieppoise, saddle of lamb Provencale and iced nougat, Mitterrand urged both superpowers to find a "reasonable compromise" in Geneva next month. Calling Franco-Soviet cooperation a "fundamental element of our foreign policy," the French President reiterated his country's opposition to space weapons, without mentioning...
...grand candlebras shone and the birthday banners flew above the hall, as the guests dined on chilled cucumber soup, beef and lobster. The evening's events included a flaming birthday cake, a performance by the Harvard Krokodiloes and a nostalgic slide presentation of Dudley's past...
...early Friday, when Gloria was lurching toward its landfall in the Carolinas, New York City was braced for what many meteorologists feared might be the worst storm of the century. The Eastern seaboard had evacuated its islands and lowlands, taped its windows, stocked up on batteries, candles and canned soup, brought in the porch furniture, stuck the garbage cans away and more or less ducked out of sight. By Friday morning it seemed that the Atlantic Coast of the U.S. had simply gone out of business. In Manhattan, the bosses of the Wall Street stock exchanges and most banks decided...
...favorite appetizer is the popular Cajun popcorn, bits of shellfish cooked in batter and dipped in a tangy onion sauce. To our disappointment, however, crabmeat was substituted for the traditional crawfish tails. The fish gumbo, a soup thick with seafood and orzo, also satisfies. The shrimp remoulade--cold shrimp in an unconventional hot mustard sauce--would pass muster if it included more shrimp and less lettuce...
Unlike Ruth-chaser Roger Maris and others under journalistic seige, Rose kept both his hair and humor. The two-a-day press conferences, better attended than some State of the Union messages, raised issues as profound as the soup du jour at Flanigan's on Second Street, hereafter to be known as Pete Rose Way. "I knew chicken noodle was on Tuesday," he said significantly. But that night an 0-for-4 showing got him away from the specials (asparagus) and back to the basics (vegetable). Ron Robinson, a raw Reds pitcher who last spring had fretted that he wouldn...