Word: soups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commune made her run, smashed into the ice, ground and grated to a sudden stop. Her men rubbed their aching necks, fought to keep their balance. In the galley, chicken soup spattered out of a kettle. On the bridge, Captain Joe brooded: "This just ain't steamboating weather. I ain't seen a bird...
...work and endurance, escape the skeletal defects (rickets) of childhood and have the finest teeth of any race in the world. Dr. Soper added that "the cow is essentially an unclean animal" and in spite of "all strenuous efforts and precautions, the best milk" is a sort of "bacterial soup...
...with a better weather yarn, airmen of the Aleutians forces will stick to Hannibal, the hitchhiking sea gull. Hannibal, the story goes, turned up on the wing of a Navy Catalina patrol boat one day when it was feeling its way, barely above the sea, in a pea-soup fog. The pilot decided that if the weather was too thick for Hannibal it was too thick for a PBY, too. He landed. As the plane rippled to a stop, Hannibal took off, soared to a full-stall landing, and swam off into...
Under the Lorry. On the road retreating from Magwe, Belden listened to General Bruce Scott speaking pensively between sips of soup: "What is war? Who is the enemy? What is he? We can only grasp at the shape of the antagonist before us, and then when you think you've solved the mystery of his personality, he vanishes into thin air like a jinni. . . . What makes me cross is that by evening he knows exactly where we are, but we don't know where he is 'or what...
...makes it possible to manufacture B vitamins and high-grade protein in hours rather than the months it would take to produce meat." Turula is a yeast, not of the baking or brewing varieties, grown by germ culture methods in sugar or molasses. It may be served as a soup, powder, flake or paste, may be sprinkled on porridge, spread on bread, mixed with other foods. Its flavor is cautiously described as "palatable." It is rich in protein, carbon and sulfur, has a high vitamin B content...