Word: cocke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performance at Middlebury was outstanding. In the slalom. Which Friedman called "the best single event in Harvard's history," Crimson skiers captured four out of the top ten places. Willy Draper led the Harvard contingent, placing second behind Rick Launsbury of Dartmouth by one-tenth of a second. Mike Cock and Peter and Larry Carter--the other Harvard racers--placed sixth, seventh, and tenth respectively...
...going to cock a snook at British law. The pirates are going to be dealt with...
...have turned my palace into a prison," cock-a-doodled Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali, 63. "I am not allowing myself any kind of distraction. Look at my television set: I have turned it upside down and put a distorting filter in front of it." Could he be working at something? Si, si, nothing less than a vast canvas 15 yards square, "a study of tuna fishing" that will be ready for exhibition in the fall. And when he is not painting, he continued, he keeps busy photographing God. "God invented man and man invented the metric system," Dali explained...
Eighth Wonder. A three-story aviary will be filled with macaws, two types of parrots and cock-of-the-rock birds; there is an indoor sidewalk cafe open 24 hours a day on the floor of the lobby, a saucer-shaped cocktail lounge perched on a column one floor above -and 20 lobby hostesses in gold uniforms to pass out room keys and arrange for shopping tours, beauty appointments and baby sitters. For good measure, the hotel is topped by a restaurant that revolves 360° each hour, on a clear day gives diners a view of the Blue Ridge...
...When people talk about compulsory national service," says Milton J. Friedman, the bantam cock of conservative economics, "it brings to mind Hitler's Jugend. It's so much warmed-over collectivism packaged to look like draft reform...