Word: cocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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White House correspondents gave Presidential Secretary William D. Hassett a talking mynah for his 69th birthday present last year, and the black, orange-ruffed bird caught on fast. He learned to cock his head and cry: "What about the appropriation?" Hassett, an old newsman himself, soon taught the bird to squawk: "Flash! Get me the desk!" "Flash" became his name...
...meat: cattle raisers get no subsidy and want none, and yet porterhouse was selling last week in Manhattan at a record $1.20 a lb. Cornell Farm Economist H. E. Babcock, one of the foremost exponents of "the livestock economy," had developed a symbol to tell the story. Bab-cock's "Unimal" is a queer creature with the face of a calf, the crest of a rooster, the forequarters of a sheep, the udder of a cow, the wings of a turkey and the hindquarters of a pig (see cut). The critter represents a composite of the kind of products...
Once every two years James Bab-cock, sub-foreman in the Maintenance Department, climbs the 267 winding steps to the top of the Memorial Hall tower on a routine inspection tour...