Word: cocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unruly wrangling and almost no disagreement. Party Boss Lord Woolton had provided a new slogan, "Winning Through," and a new symbol, a white lion rampant. But a party brochure picked the hen as its symbolic heroine and proclaimed, with a snort at Labor's noisy ranks: "The cock crows, but the hen delivers the goods." Which is the proper symbol for the Tories, asked the Manchester Guardian, lion rampant or hen couchant...
...triumphant Churchillian cock-a-doodling reflected a soberer opinion on the part of many Tory mentors that Churchill's stock did in fact stand far higher in the country than it had a year ago, when many Britons felt he might take unnecessary foreign risks. The assembled Tories found that he could still roar defiance at his enemies. "Let us go forward," he told the conference, brandishing a party symbol aloft, "with our sturdy, our unconquerable lions." Hen-like, the Tories thought they could still deliver the goods...
Novel writing wasn't as easy as it looked, and besides, Gary was a hard man to please. Looking at his first book he asked himself, "Do I mean this?" He decided he didn't. He started another called Cock Jarvis-"some of the best stuff I ever wrote. The man was alive, my God he was alive. But I couldn't control it. I had immense invention, but I hadn't decided what I meant." Not until ten years later, after six abortive novels, did Gary decide what he meant. By that time even...
...defection of the Barrachinistes cost R.P.F. its cock-of-the-walk No. 1 position in the National Assembly. Reduced from 115 seats to 85, the Gaullists now rank as No. 3 after Socialists (104 seats) and Communists (96). For Premier Pinay, the splintering was one more lucky break. Barrachin's group noisily insists that they are still Gaullists at heart, and that they would resist the Schuman Plan and the European Army as bitterly as De Gaulle himself. But on economic issues, about which Pinay cares most, the Barrachinistes would do their best to save the franc. They proved...
...will not modify "to secure the support of a limited number of mugwumps," he certainly will not get the two mugwump votes of our household! As voters in Precinct 129 of Harris County, we are indignant over the malicious allegations of the Taft machine here which invented a cock-and-bull story about those "whisky-drinking, beer-guzzling Ike supporters who stole Chairman Miller's silverware," and then turned right around and stole our votes at Mineral Wells. To thousands of outraged Texans, Truman may stand for the Fair Deal, but Taft stands for the Dirty Deal...