Word: stewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soup Stew. In Manhattan, harried Restaurateur Raymond Andrieux, trying to please everybody, changed his Vichyssoise to De Gaulloise, then to Giraudoise, finally to Françoise, distractedly announced: "If this proves unsatisfactory I shall call it Cordell Hulloise...
What Winston Churchill had called the Italian "stew" was bubbling fiercely. But the Badoglio military dictatorship still summoned the people to carry on the war to "an honorable peace. . . . Under no circumstances must our soldiers be betrayed by those behind the lines." A portentous answer came from the people...
...break down the whole structure and expression of the Italian State. We certainly do not seek to reduce Italian life to a condition of chaos and anarchy, and find ourselves without any authority with whom to deal. . . . [But] we should let the Italians . . . 'stew in their own juice' for a bit and hot up the fire...
...board of Army officers began an investigation of the case, and in Washington the House Military Affairs Committee prepared to conduct an inquiry of its own. That made three agencies stirring the Self ridge stew; last month the FBI arrested two Wayne County constables, charged them with getting $200 from a Detroit draftee on the promise that friends of theirs at Selfridge could fix him up with a safe, soft berth for the duration...
Last week a sudden order from the State Department sent six members of the American Legation at Helsinki flying off to Stockholm with their families. Left to carry on with one clerk, one telephone operator, was Charge d'Affaires Robert M. McClintock. Left to stew and wonder was Finland-at war with the Russians, bludgeoned by Germany, and now roundly rebuked...