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While Lenin masterminded the revolution from Geneva and Trotsky formed the first Workers' Soviet in St. Petersburg, Stalin wrote fiery pamphlets in Georgia: "Russia is like a loaded gun, at full cock, ready to go off at the slightest concussion. Rally around the Party Committees . . . Only they can lead us in a worthy manner." Thus early he revealed his bent: control through committees. But what committees! "Our committees ought at once to set out to arm the people . . . to set up regional centers for the collection of arms, to organize workshops for the preparation of ... explosives." The revolution failed...
...Arts Foundation announced its selection of the top artists of 1952: Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles, whose 38-figure Fountain of Faith was unveiled in National Memorial Park, Falls Church, Va. last fall; Wagnerian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, who made her farewell appearance at the Metropolitan Opera last spring; Dramatist Sean (Cock-adoodle Dandy) O'Casey, "the most magnificent prose writer in the modern theater"; and the Dancers of Bali...
...defenders of thirteenth-century scholasticism have found their last stronghold in the modern western world. The administration of Harvard College, renouncing all such poppy-cock as "diversity" and "individualism," has reached back to St. Thomas for the rationale behind the recent change in parietal rules. Unity shall henceforth be the watchword of the Dean's Office...
...triumphant Churchillian cock-a-doodling reflected a soberer opinion on the part of many Tory mentors that Churchill's stock did in fact stand far higher in the country than it had a year ago, when many Britons felt he might take unnecessary foreign risks. The assembled Tories found that he could still roar defiance at his enemies. "Let us go forward," he told the conference, brandishing a party symbol aloft, "with our sturdy, our unconquerable lions." Hen-like, the Tories thought they could still deliver the goods...
Novel writing wasn't as easy as it looked, and besides, Gary was a hard man to please. Looking at his first book he asked himself, "Do I mean this?" He decided he didn't. He started another called Cock Jarvis-"some of the best stuff I ever wrote. The man was alive, my God he was alive. But I couldn't control it. I had immense invention, but I hadn't decided what I meant." Not until ten years later, after six abortive novels, did Gary decide what he meant. By that time even...