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Word: soups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professor at Tokyo's Police University blamed the loss on the manner in which U.S. occupation forces revised Japan's education system. A Tokyo nutrition expert argued that Sone had been weakened by eating Parisian breakfasts of coffee and croissants instead of Japanese dried seaweed, bean-paste soup, hot rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tradition Unbound | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

...book, Tropic of Cancer is a soup, a whirlpool perhaps even a sewer. To make different order out of it is intensely difficult for the week-stomached, it is impossible. Characters and scenes float in and out of the with a wonderfully picaresque irregularity of Rabelaisian humor are broken off unexpectedly by passages approaching the drunken, frenzied poetry of a Rimbaud. Obscurity and philosophy, squalor and rhapsody are juxtaposed, crammed together, torn apart and tossed wildly, as if the book were the mixing bowl in which Miller, the mad chef, were preparing a salad -- to fling in the face...

Author: By Randall A. Collins, | Title: Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

...just-published book, Tiffany's Table Manners for Teen-Agers (94 pp.; Ives Washburn, Inc.; $3), Tiffany Board Chairman Walter Hoving offers comforting advice. "Be nonchalant," says he. If you choose the wrong fork or knife, don't fidget, keep eating. Sip soup from the side of the spoon or from the end-it makes no difference. Asparagus may be eaten with the fingers, as may artichokes and corn on the cob (exception: chicken). The finger bowl? Don't ponder its use; just remove it until time to dip fingertips. Other items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Be Nonchalant | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 24--Playing soccer on wet grass in gym shoes is like trying to eat soup with a fork--it doesn't work too well. But Dunster still managed to eke out a 2-0 victory over Branford, Yale's intra-mural soccer champion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Takes Soccer Crown | 11/25/1961 | See Source »

...Corn soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: No Tickee, No Worry | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

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