Word: cock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interviewing the types that were his neighbors in his native New York and were later to elect him mayor. He received his law degree in 1910. As a member of Congress for 14 years, he attracted national attention. His shrill voice, squat body and flashing eyes went into bantam-cock motion when he felt legislation was unintelligent and designed for the privileged. His fearlessness, eloquence and ready wit kept him on front pages...
TIME errs when it refers to legalized cock lighting. Cock fighting is a misdemeanor, punishable by six months' imprisonment...
...Nevada State law specifically bans cock fighting. Cock fighting is banned in Reno by a city ordinance...
...fullest days that has ever passed. It started yesterday morning when the official receiver roused himself even before the cock knew it was daylight and hastened to meet a train. A crop of photographers had been carefully informed to the second of the time the train arrived. They were at the station seven minutes before--a marvelous feat, the representative came two minutes later--still more marvelous, but the train had crossed both and arrived ten minutes early...
Relaxing from his job of being Cuba's Dictator, Colonel Fulgencio Batista attended a Havana cock fight with a group of friends, including cultural Carlos Mendieta whom Batista made Cuba's President for a while...