Word: cocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disappointed Flanders himself but avoided the Bilbo pitfall--the residual sympathy which even a despicable Senator always receives when his traditional rights are violated. Tradition, for once, is working in favor of McCarthy's enemies. By holding hearings in an orderly, judicial manner the Warkins committee allowed McCarthy to cock the gun with which he seems destined to shoot himself...
...into such great circumstantial detail about this thing if you were telling a cock-and-bull story...
While the whole "cock-and-bull story" had a ring of the past in it, Oppenheimer's association with the Red-tainted Chevalier did not. He testified that when he was in Paris last December...
...full story of the incident was not so brief. Not until the next August-more than half a year after the incident occurred-did Oppenheimer say anything about it to security officers. And when he did, by his own testimony, he "invented a cock-and-bull story." Among the several officers he admitted lying to were General Groves and Colonel Boris T. Pash, an Army counterintelligence officer...
After an acorn fell on Chicken-licken's head, she convinced Hen-len, Cock-lock, Duck-luck, Drake-lake, Goose-loose, Gander-lander and Turkey-lurkey that the sky was falling. They all got so excited that Fox-lox ate them...