Word: cocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Curtains. The fighters command big-league prices. An untried young cock can be bought for as little as $50. But once his training muffs (chamois coverings to protect his spurs) have been removed and replaced by lethally pointed steel "gaffs" and razor-edged "slashers" the price rises fast. There are few Joe Louises in the cocking main, where a k.o. means curtains for the loser, and birds who survive five or more fights can bring...
...birdlike creature of 59 with darting black eyes, restless hands and a big head, "Chato" is a fighting cock whose hard work, smart financing, fast talk and seething energy have created Latin America's biggest news empire, and made him very nearly the most powerful man in Brazil. He first fireballed into Rio in 1917 as a brash young lawyer from the north with a driving urge to write for the newspapers. After a spectacular career as reporter and editor, he borrowed 3,000,000 cruzeiros in 1925 and bought his first newspaper, Rio's O Jornal. Generally...
...listen, cock-ear'd, in a way of wonder...
James R. Gleason, assistant Chief of Customs for the Port of New York, pointed out that Cock was burned for wizardry in 1874 at his Haitiau villa. "Haiti may have been totalitarian in 1874," said Gleason, "for all we know...
Died. Sara Allgood, 66, for a quarter-century one of Dublin's Abbey Players (Juno and the Pay cock), in recent years a Hollywood character actress (How Green Was My Valley); of a heart ailment; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Dublin-born, she became at 18 a member ("the youngest and humblest," she recalled) of the Irish National Theatre Society, a group of patriotic enthusiasts (including Padraic Colum, George Russell, William Butler Yeats) who founded the Abbey Theatre and sparked the Irish Revival. A cinemactress on & off since 1929 (Blackmail, the first British talking picture), she brightened dozens...