Word: cocke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brutal way, Khrushchev demonstrated a fact of international life: that the neutrals, though they fancy themselves the conscience of mankind, act generally out of naked self-interest. And their self-interest tells them that it is safer to cock a snoot at the U.S. than at Moscow...
...getting harder and harder to keep score on how many times Nikita Khrushchev had rattled his war rockets. One Kremlinologist got the count up to nearly 150 times in the past five years-and that was before last week's big flurry. Cock-a-hoop over his cosmonauts, a little miffed perhaps that the rest of the world was not giving him what he regarded as his due, and possibly feeling a little frustrated over the West's stubborn resistance on Berlin. Nikita Khrushchev was in a real rocket-banging tantrum...
...almost completely deaf: he perfected the phonograph in 1887 because his own faulty hearing made him fascinated by the science of sound. His invention so fascinated the public that in those early years audiences sat for whole evenings in stunned silence listening to the tinfoil phonograph crow like a cock, bark like a dog or babble in foreign tongues. Later, the German Pianist-Conductor Hans von Bulow was so moved by Edison's handiwork that when he heard a recording of himself playing a Chopin mazurka, he fainted dead away. In the early days Columbia slipped commercials in between...
...Angeles, dyspeptic eaters bemoan the omission of La Scala, one of the finest Italian restaurants on the West Coast, and the Cock 'n Bull, whose Sunday hunt breakfast alone is worth a constellation. Many topflight restaurants in raffish neighborhoods lose points to stuffier places in more conventional surroundings. Chasen's rates its four stars more for its pressagentry than its food. On the other hand, the guide has also dug up many outstanding out-of-the-way spots, including Casa la Golondrina in Los Angeles, Spenger's Fish Grotto in Berkeley, and Bimbo's 365 Theatre...
...chance. But Kennedy felt confident that he could look Khrushchev squarely in the eye and effectively warn him that despite recent reverses, neither the President nor the U.S. could safe ly be pushed around. There were some who argued the necessity of the exercise: the Communists are pretty cock-a-hoop these days, sure that they can toy with the nuclear talks, conquer Laos, wreck the U.N., and maybe start something in Berlin...