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Word: soups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...phrase books and necklaces adorned with Sphinx pendants. "They were laughing and dancing a little to the belly-dance music playing in the shop," recalled Proprietor Nagui Makari. The Americans, guarded by Egyptian uniformed police and plainclothesmen, enjoyed an early-afternoon meal in the grand ballroom, dining on tomato soup, roast chicken and French pastry. One of the officers offered a prayer: "We are going home. We have finished our job. Let us thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fall of the Screaming Eagles | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

Penalties for umbrella law violations need not be overly harsh; in fact, they present an opportunity for judicial creativity, Violaters could be rehabilitated through social service activities such as giving out soup or cocoa to pedestrians on rainy days...

Author: By John Ross, | Title: Umbrella Terrorism | 12/14/1985 | See Source »

Consumerism. The very mention of the word inspires images of Andy Warhol's gigantic Campbell's Soup cans and vacuous shoppers shuffling down the alleys of Copley Place...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: I Buy, Therefore I Am | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

George's other responsibility is his late parents' retirement home in a tiny coastal village in Cornwall. He settles there because he has nowhere else to go, but he looks seaward and makes odious comparisons: "In Bom Porto, the Atlantic was milky green, thick as soup. At this time of year it swarmed with plankton, and in certain lights you seemed to see the sea wriggle with life. It was easy to imagine the first things crawling out of it and starting in on their colonial adventure. This northern sea was different, more coldly sophisticated. If you thought about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Channels Foreign Land | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...York portrayed a city in which thousands of citizens were sleeping on the streets and the lines at the soup kitchens were growing. Schanberg also wrote of people who were unable to afford housing, New Yorkers who were being displaced by the exhorbitant rents...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Silencing the City | 10/26/1985 | See Source »

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