Word: souped
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Thanks to his remarks about soup-kitchen cheats and the undocumented hungry, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese has earned a reputation as a man who does not like to see people abusing the system. But Senator Howard Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat, tried to show last week that President Reagan's nominee to replace the resigning William French Smith as Attorney General may in fact be guilty of just that. As the Judiciary Committee wrapped up its confirmation hearings, troubling questions lingered about Meese's personal past insolvency and his role in getting Administration jobs for those who gave...
...part of him, were free, theoretically, to sail in and raise hell up and down the American mind, waving torches, screaming anarchy. Somehow they do not seem that incendiary. Fo's creations sometimes look like Bertolt Brecht being done by the Marx Brothers. The anarchism savors of Duck Soup...
Chief among the issues confronting the new archbishop will be the condition of Boston's thousands of Hispanics. Currently, many immigrant Hispanics rely on the church for such community services as shelters for the homeless, instruction in English, and church-funded soup kitchens...
...Soviet Union as they set off to begin mandatory military service. Except for those who have been selected for three-year stints in the navy and border guard, the new draftees will begin two years of rigorous training, living in spartan barracks and eating such fare as greasy soup, cabbage, potatoes and salted fish. In the event of war, the military can draft 5 million more men from active reserve and an additional 40 million who are obliged to answer the call until...
...ADMINISTRATION officials have acted more consistently to show the ugliest features of Reaganism than White House counselor Edwin Meese III. It was Meese who recently raised anew the Reagan government's callousness and insensitivity, when he questioned concern over hunger in the country, and implied that many people in soup lines were really not impoverished. It was Meese who led the Administrations push for tax exemptions for colleges that racially discriminate. And it was Meese who has worked actively to enact the President's notorious directive of March 11, 1983, which seeks to create what is essentially a lifetime censorship...