Word: cocke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sublime Chaos. By contrast with the cock-a-hoop mood of a few years back, most Russians now seem bitterly resigned to the shortages, discomforts and joyless conformity of life as they now know it. In the cities all winter, housewives have had to wait interminably in line for potatoes, macaroni, flour, coal and coarse, gritty brown bread; in some areas, where bread ran out, they have heeded Marie Antoinette's apocryphal advice and queued for cookies and cake instead. Asked recently how he thought 1964 would turn out, one Muscovite replied dryly: "Worse than 1963, but better than...
Nationality seems to make no difference at all. "Ga-ga-GAAK, ga-ga-GAAK" means the same thing to a Russian Orloff rooster, an Italian Leghorn, a Cornish cock or a New Hampshire Red. At the sound of the excited cackling, prudent poultry the world over get the same message: "Watch out! Danger...
Quarterback Jerry Welchel showed little of his passing skill because he had practically no opportunities to cock his arm. Coach Fusia disclosed that more than 16 passes had been called, but only six ever got into the air and just three were completed...
With Bilodeau playing on defense for most of the afternoon, Harvard probably will not try much in the way of passing from the halfback position. Don't be surprised to see Mike Bassett at least cock his arm now and then, however, Bassett, for all the stories to the contrary, is not too bad when he actually throws, and he is supposedly gaining confidence in this part of his game...
...army and police force. His ranee was Sylvia Brett, the beautiful daughter of a viscount who, it was said, had been Sir James Barrie's inspiration for Peter Pan. Another literary admirer was George Bernard Shaw. When Sylvia *married the rajah in 1911, he wrote: Ride a cock horse to Sarawak Cross To see a young ranee consumed with remorse. She'll have bells on her fingers, And rings through her nose, And won't be permitted to wear any clothes. The Brookes had three pretty daughters, who grew up in England and were known to every...