Word: cob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist authority in Poland is official tolerance of private farms. So stubbornly resistant are Polish peasants to collectivization that even now, after three years of Gomulka, cooperative farms total less than 1% of the nation's arable land. Would Khrushchev spoil everything with one of his off-the-cob remarks? Gomulka wanted no independent witnesses present when Nikita got to talking about agriculture...
...Rockefeller turned up at the Capitol Hill Club headquarters at 214 First Street S.E. †for Pepsi-Cola-on-the-rocks (later sipping Dubonnet, he professionally held it under the table whenever he saw a photographer approaching) and an informal feed of Maine lobster and corn on the cob in the club garden...
...Miriam Paar, Jack's pretty and patient wife, appears at poolside with a dinner tray-brook trout, corn on the cob, string beans, mixed green salad. Jack tops it off with a chocolate sundae garnished with whipped cream and peanuts...
...17th century a Spanish priest, Father Cob,. made an acute observation about the Indians of the high Andes. "The Indians," he wrote, "are red-blooded to an extreme degree, from whence they derive their excessive heat, as borne out by the fact that if in the time of greatest cold one touches their hand, one will always find heat in it, amazingly." In Natural History, Anthropologist Marschall T. Newman explains the physiological reasons for the Indians' "excessive heat...
KURT GINGOLD Cos Cob, Conn...