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...into such great circumstantial detail about this thing if you were telling a cock-and-bull story...
...full story of the incident was not so brief. Not until the next August-more than half a year after the incident occurred-did Oppenheimer say anything about it to security officers. And when he did, by his own testimony, he "invented a cock-and-bull story." Among the several officers he admitted lying to were General Groves and Colonel Boris T. Pash, an Army counterintelligence officer...
After an acorn fell on Chicken-licken's head, she convinced Hen-len, Cock-lock, Duck-luck, Drake-lake, Goose-loose, Gander-lander and Turkey-lurkey that the sky was falling. They all got so excited that Fox-lox ate them...
...cocktail party is an unlikely place to look for spirituality. Yet Eliot's Cock tall Party was a veritable Communion of Saints. His apparently vapid men and flighty women all proved to be in quest of a kind of ideal love. Those with a low spiritual potential learned resignation to their far-from-ideal human loves, while Celia, who was more gifted, saved her life by losing it. In finding saints at cocktail parties Eliot is perfectly in line with primitive Christianity which teaches that the truly good man will not be recognized by any visible piety. Christ...
Then Ike is out of his chair, ready with an answer. He paces the deep-piled green carpet, stopping occasionally to cock his head at the ceiling to get a grasp on his thoughts. As he talks, he comes back to his desk, stands at an easy parade rest, plunging one hand into a pocket, or crossing and uncrossing his arms. His gestures have no oratorical flair, and betray no nervousness. Ike does not squirm or fidget. He moves smoothly, as an athlete moves...