Word: souped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock and began trading recipes with the Pamet Indians. When Mayflower Passenger Edward Winslow was asked to aid the ailing big chief, Massasoit, he revived him with some English fruit jam. Perking up, Massasoit is reported to have asked for some "good English pottage," a soup he had already sampled, thus becoming, probably, the first American to order foreign food. Since then, immigrants have been arriving like guests at a covered-dish supper, contributing their specialties to the new communal table. The result is the world's most diversified menu, one that includes such typical "American...
Ralph: And no wonder, my pet. Chicken soup and voyeurism are a dynamic combination. You could spend a decade peering into the neighbors' bedroom windows and not get half the kick of a Westheimer show. You sit mesmerized as Ruth soothingly points out, "Normalcy is hard to define," and "There is no one right size for the penis." You get to look down on all the bumpkins who call in wondering whether Ben-Gay makes them sterile. In fact, everything's such a mess out there, it makes your own sex life seem pretty good. Ours is superb...
...waitress in the professional drivers' section is a big motherly-looking woman with red hair piled in careful curls on top of her head. She correctly sizes up the proper meal for the new customer at the counter. "Don't know what you want, honey? Try the chicken-noodle soup with a hot roll. It will stick to you like you've got something, and you don't have to worry about grease...
Israel David Goodkind, the late-middle-aged narrator of Wouk's latest novel, is smarter than Marjorie. He is exceptionally adept at having it both ways: ordering consomme but enjoying chicken soup. On the "inside" he is deeply religious, privy to the spiritual riches of an ancient tradition. On the "outside" he is a famous tax lawyer with a reputation for creative thinking, which lands him in a consultant's chair during the last days of the Nixon Administration. His jobs: contributing "ethical touches" to the President's Watergate speeches and acting as a messenger between his old friend Golda...
...Switzerland. It was the last territory to become a canton of the Swiss Confederation, in 1815, after centuries of independence. Its patriotic holiday, known as the Escalade, commemorates the December night in 1602 when an old woman roused and saved the sleeping city by throwing a pot of soup at the invading troops of the Duke of Savoy. Geneva sheltered both the ascetic Calvin and the libertine Voltaire. Lenin conspired here, and so did the anarchists Bakunin and Kropotkin...