Word: soused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buck" or "stud"; or you are homosexual, a "queen"; or, commonly, bisexual, "AC/DC", "Greek", "double-cheeked". (Incidently, the homosexuals in the union hall keep clear and apart, and tend to ship together; anywhere in the fleet you can hear of Tillie, the Queen Bee of the Independence and the sous-chef there.) In the general camaraderie there's a great deal of rough humor about this, but no fundamental questionings: everyone has a place and is in it. After one of the spring love affairs for which Cambridge must by now be famous, it can be a great relief...
...strike so far was economic. Thousands of steel and natural gas workers went out on a sympathy strike, and a 24-hour rail walkout cre.ated a transportation tie-up all over France. Into Paris drove a 342-car convoy of some 2,000 Lorraine ironworkers chanting: "Give us some sous, Pompidou...
...Washington not only for her looks and her style, but for her abilities as a hostess, Madame Alphand turned out a dinner that had Francophiles kissing their finger tips in joy. It was, in short, les works: a delicate jole gras from Landes, a filet de boeuf Charolais sous la cendre garni renaissance, accompanied by a profound Chateau Gruaud-Larose en magnum 1952; an unassuming little hearts-of-lettuce salad with mimosa dressing. And for a windup, poires Mona Lisa-poached pears, swaddled in hot chocolate sauce, bundled into a pastry shell-trailed by a superb Dom Perignon...
...week's end 10,000 marching strikers tied Parisian auto traffic in angry knots. As annoyed autoists irritably leaned on their horns, the strikers chanted, "Des sous, Chariot; des sous, Chariot [Some pennies, Charlie]." The demand seemed modest enough...
...photographed the Club des Sous I'Eau in Paris. My photograph showed its president, Commandant Le Prieur, its vice president, the scientist Jean Painleve, and other members cavorting under water in diving masks, shooting off their underwater guns and wearing water lungs...