Word: souping
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...Congressmen filed hungrily into the ornate, high-ceilinged House restaurant one noonday last week, big pots of white-bean soup bubbled in the kitchen. White-bean soup has been a tradition on the House menu since the day, years ago, when mighty Speaker Joe Cannon thunderously decreed: "By God, we are going to have bean soup in here every day." Uncle Joe's daily lunch was bean soup and cornbread. Daily lunch of thousands of good men & true ever since has been bean soup and cornbread, with maybe a dash of ketchup...
...hands of the big clock pointed to 1. Suddenly the restaurant's colored waiters sidled towards the doors. Suddenly, as if by magic, they disappeared. Bean soup (15?) was on the menu, all right, but there would be no soup served that day. The waiters to the nation's Congressmen had gone on strike -the first strike in the Capitol's history...
Dainties. In London, British cooks at U.S. Army Headquarters did what they could to improvise "American dishes" for the officers, came up with items that included cream of peanut-butter soup, canned corn with syrup, macaroni salad...
...first sight, the innocent Freshman would think that Harvard, with its welter of governing boards, is a combination of American alphabet soup and British bureaucratic verbosity. Actually, the organization contains a clear hierarchy of authority from Student Council up through the all-powerful Board of Overseers...
...only no longer adequate but actually conflicted with the Make-the-Students-Healthy program. The French dictionary was consulted once more, but no new words were found that could describe the food. Consomme, bouillon, puree, mongol, gumbo and other mumbo jumbo had been exhausted in trying to label the soup. And hamburger, whether Parisienne or Brooklynese, they had to admit was simply hamburger. With one final heroic effort, "Okra" was tacked onto the chicken gumbo in the last Sunday dinner, and than the dining halls were quickly closed...