Word: cocke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constitutional assembly campaign was in full swing last week amid a blaze of huge red and yellow Vietnamese flags and a blare of sound trucks. Up and down the narrow nation, posters blossomed bearing the arcane symbols of the candidates' slates: the Lamp, the Lotus Blossom, the Cock & Hand, the Woman with a Basket. Declared banners and placards in Sai gon: TO VOTE IS TO BEGIN BUILDING DEMOCRACY...
...mobile office is one of two on the road since March for John Han cock Mutual Life Insurance Co., the nation's fifth largest insurance firm. Using them, salesmen have so far written about $1,500,000 worth of policies for farmers and small-town businessmen. The man who conceived the idea had reason to believe that it would succeed. Robert E. Dye, 51, a John Hancock vice president, worked his way through the University of California as a Good Humor man, shifted the chocolate-coated sell from ice cream to insurance...
...Including Lieut. Commander Lachlan Ronald Duncan Mackintosh (the Mackintosh of Mackintosh) and Douglas Charles Lindsey Gordon (the Cock of the North...
Stravinsky's "Le Renard" is a burlesque performed by a cock, a fox, a goat, and a cat. The fox, of course, is trying to catch the cock, and the goat and the cat intervene to keep him from doing so. David Moran portrayed the cock, relying entirely on his dancing. Wesley Skinner looked like a goat, although his movements were not as successful as Moran's. Paul Magloff--the crafty, drooling "Renard"--used both his elastic body and plastic face to achieve the work's most impressive performance. The four solo vocalists sang expressivley and tunefully, though Thomas Weber...
This summer, following tours of Russia, the U.S. and Japan, the short, thickset Szeryng has been cutting a wide swath on the music-festival circuit in Europe. At the end of the five-week-long Salzburg Festival, one critic declared Szeryng the "Hahn im Korb" (German equivalent for "cock of the walk") among all the soloists who had appeared...