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Word: cocking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flares up within him whenever he catches his students ogling Lola Lola. And at the film's climax, when he is persuaded to play the clown in Lola Lola's revue before an audience of old school cronies. Jurgens penetrates rare emotional depths. Crowing like a crazed cock as one raw egg after another is broken over his bald pate, he personifies the soul-destroying humiliation that is the inexorable companion of unbridled desire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 7, 1959 | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

France took on this unpromising territory largely by happenstance. When Britain in 1890 agreed to concede France a free hand in the Sahara, Lord Salisbury commented: "Let the Gallic cock sharpen his spurs in the desert sand." But for nearly half a century virtually the only Frenchmen to show much interest in the desert sands were adventurers and eccentrics. Tindouf, now one of the French army's most important Sahara outposts, was not occupied until 1934, and the last of the marauding desert bands was not brought under control until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Visionary | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Here the dramatist, whether in two weeks or not turned out a masterful and hilarious cock-and-ball story. Like the fabliaux, the play is "mosts pour la gent faire rire"; it embodies the English version of l'esprit gaulois. Merry Wives certainly joins the company of the other classic representatives of the fabliau tradition--Boccaccio's Decameron, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and Balzac's Contes Drolatiques. So cease, ye carpers...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Merry Wives of Windsor | 7/9/1959 | See Source »

...senatorial look into his budget last week, Mattei was still cock of the walk, but minus a few tail feathers. Critics have often suggested a concealed ownership of the heavily subsidized Milan daily // Giorno (circ. 150,000), which has consistently backed Mattei's causes and opposed his detractors, followed a left-of-center line, and often been hostile to actions of Premier Antonio Segni's regime. The government consistently denied that taxpayers' money was backing // Giorno, Last week Mario Ferrari-Aggradi, head of the government ministry that controls state properties, stunned Senators by candidly acknowledging that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Still on Top | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...rest rooms of Mayfair restaurants. A four-page tabloid called the Daily Racket (after the paper in the play) sprouted on London newsstands, loaded with barbs aimed at Fleet Streeters. Rebuffed in efforts to hold an opening-night party in a Fleet Street pressroom, he hired the Cock Tavern, a newsmen's hangout, decorated it with signs, copies of the Racket, copy boys, celebrities and drink. (The bottle count: 64 whisky, 55 wine, 46 gin, twelve brandy, 240 beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER ABROAD: Slickey's Slicker | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

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