Word: cocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hold no brief for the 1957 car models described in your Feb. 18 Letters column, but on behalf of my fellow citizens of this state, I resent Mrs. McKinley's remarks. The road runner or chaparral cock is a cheerful bird, a curious delight to the traveler, an unassuming and, indeed, pedestrian fellow-the antithesis of the long, loud, brassy products designed for conspicuous consumption by the free-wheeling denizens of the freeways...
...meant, thus increased his renown for honesty, if not discretion. Said Charlie Wilson: "I meant that this particular place is not the place where I can talk best. I was not referring to the White House as such. There was an old Roman senator who said: 'A cock crows best on his own dunghill.' He meant, when he is in his own house...
...Laborites, cock-a-hoop with the victory, had won with 1) a more attractive candidate (capable Barrister Niall MacDermot), 2) a solid, close-to-the-pocketbook issue in a proposed Tory bill to relax rent controls, 3) a much better political machine. The Tories were inclined to blame most of their troubles on a third candidate, a Junoesque, right-wing independent named Leslie Greene, 31, who campaigned on "I have no faith in the U.S." She siphoned off 1,487 votes, the majority of them presumably from the Tories. But Candidate Greene was not the whole explanation; since the last...
...committee voted 8-6 against the Russian move after U.S. Chief Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., denounced the complaint as "stupidly false" and a "gigantic cock and bull story...
Once upon a time, Chicken-lichen went into the woods to look for meat, and an acorn fell upon her poor head, so she cried: "The sky is falling down!" She told Hen-len who told Cock-lock, who told Duck-luck, who told Drake-lake, who told Goose-loose, who told Gander-lander, who told Turkey-lurkey. And on their way to tell the King, they met Fox-lox, who offered to take them to the Palace. Instead, he ate them all up. Moral: Use Your Head, Else a Fox May Pluck Your Feathers...