Word: cocke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from the brandy bottle. The Oprhals were dismayed by how little the ifor patrols had done to protect the neighborhood in the previous week. They had roamed about, but rarely intervened directly. "All they had to do," said Rabija, "is show up two or three times a day and cock their weapons, and all the bandits would run away...
...future parents and the births of his three elder sisters and finally his own, which is unusual in that his mother carried him only 41/2 months. He calls himself "a man living double quick." For every year he lives he ages two. "No need for supernatural explanations; some cock-up in the DNA will...
...start of Cock-a-doodle-doo, Philip Weiss' smart first novel (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 295 pages; $21), he--Jack Gold--has just finished working on an underdog's losing campaign for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York. The winner is popular Early Quinlan, who had been Secretary of State in a Republican Administration but, when times changed, switched parties with speed and grace...
That assessment about sums up the cynicism of Cock-a-doodle-doo. Unlike the hero of Robert Penn Warren's political classic, All the King's Men, Jack is for sale almost at once. Weiss tells much of his thirtysomething story through party scenes, and he easily passes a tricky test of fiction writing: displaying a sharp sense of when to start a sequence roiling, when to let his party sizzle and when to cut away from...
...friends, Ralph is the most upset by what he considers Nicky's betrayal of the group and the neighborhood. "All she wants from you is your cock and your coke," he screams at the love struck Nicky. His words are refreshing because, though vulgar, they capture the essence of Wendy's good-hearted, but casual, approach. His toughness simultaneously hides and accentuates his desire to protect Ralph...