Word: cocke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castro regime's triumphant cock's crow of victory, for all its exaggerations, was closer to the bitter truth. At the Bay of Pigs, on Cuba's south coast, a force of 1,300 wellarmed, well-trained anti-Castro freedom fighters last week launched a major campaign to rid their homeland of Communist dictatorship. They were defeated within two days by a better-armed, better-led enemy, who withstood their attack and delivered a crushing counterblow. The defeat, as all the world sensed, was a tragedy not only for Cuba's exiles. It was a debacle...
...credence to a cover story that the bombings were by pilots defecting from Castro's air force, a few .30-cal. bullets were fired into an old Cuban B26. A pilot took off in the crate and landed it at Miami with an engine needlessly feathered and a cock-and-bull story that he had attacked the airfields. A reporter noted that dust and undisturbed grease covered bomb-bay fittings, electrical connections to rocket mounts were corroded, guns were uncocked and unfired. The planes that actually did the bombing never were seen...
Easter season is a time for Congressmen to go home, where the votes are, and cock attentive ears to the voice of the people. If the voice comes through loud and clear enough, it can change a Congressman's mind about what stands he should take on what issues. In that sense, the spring recess is an occasion for a national summing up. And last week Senators and Representatives around the U.S. achieved remarkable agreement in their findings: the folks back home like President John Kennedy. They are fascinated by his vigor and by his virtuosity in juggling crises...
Good Reason. If no bird was the clear winner at the end of some 20 minutes, the pair was taken back to a "drag pit" behind the main arena and set to scrapping again. In one fight a cock belonging to Kentucky's Best and Kelly stable refused to quit, although it was repeatedly "shot gunned" (slashed in the head by both its opponent's spurs). At one point, the handler of the losing bird put half of its bloody head in his mouth to warm its damaged brain, blew on its body to keep a wound from...
...future--if there is a future--Mr. Hammarskjold will be called a great man. Historians will recall that he was decisive in shaping the United Nations into something more than an arena for propaganda cock fights at a time when something more was desperately needed. They will say that he strengthened the only positive deterrent to war in a world where the peace was a consensus of terror...