Word: souping
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...precipitate of silver chloride which would indicate that there was salt in the boiler water." Chief Petty Officer Cook had turned a valve, and "steam as hot as red-hot iron" had emerged from the ship's boilers at 400º and heated a 40-gallon cauldron of soup. Chief Petty Officer O'Flaherty was delicately keeping a director sight upon the foremast of the enemy flagship: "With every microscopic variation of the ... sight ... six guns moved too . . . five hundred tons of steel and machinery swaying to each featherweight touch...
...soup he took was Elephant Soup, and the fish he took was Whale, . . . And Noah, he often said to his wife as he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes, if it doesn't get into the wine." - G. K. Chesterton, Wine and Water...
Because they have no weather reports, they resort to makeshifts, take chances. Old flying boats venture out and up through pea-soup overcasts, often to rescue flyers from a sea so cold that few men have survived after floating in it for more than 30 minutes. More men and planes have been lost to the weather than to the Japs...
...bear at times but it will be a cold day at at the equator when we won't work twelve hours at the new station. It's true we had to stand in line and carry trays at Cowle--but at least there was no danger of the soup bowl bouncing off the table into our laps once we out it down...
...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...