Word: cocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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39th Generation. The little man with the grave manner and impish smile, courtly graces and arrogant attitudes, had waited long to become cock of the Arab walk. He was not likely to risk losing that position...
...jockey costume, he looks deceptively thin. Most of his 112 pounds are padded about muscular shoulders, which taper to a slim waist and toothpick legs. In the jockeys' room, where he is cock of the walk, he is by turns charming and churlish, chatty and mum (he likes to read between races ? usually bestselling novels). Sometimes, when another rider has done something in a race he doesn't like, his dander rises and he tosses equipment around the room. He can swear as proficiently as any jockey, but when the occasion calls he can speak perfect parlor English...
...veteran-studded Cayugans boast national reputations in their top men and have depth and prowess in their reserves. Along with Yale and Princeton who usher out the season in the middle of May, they will have history and the guesses of ouija specialists on their side when they cock their racquets for the Crimson, and it is difficult to tell whether the team's and Barnaby's optimism includes victories over these three teams, or whether they only seek a moral victory for the underdog Crimson...
...Enemy. In four years, Communism had established its own Vatican (a shiny, modern office building), its own Pope (Palmiro Togliatti), its own hierarchy of spiritual and secular servants. One of the most important was Luigi ("The Cock") Longo, a man with a sharp, beaked face, who is generalissimo of Italian Communism's army. His partisans, who never surrendered the arms with which they fought the Germans, are estimated at 150,000. Daily, Italian police were finding more of Longo's arms caches; no one knew how many they failed to find. Longo's men face...
WHEREAS, said investigation discloses that no person can be found who knows of, or has even heard of, any cock fights within the boundaries of the City of Wheeling for the past fifteen years, or more...