Word: cocking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lamb, though the Scots have always relied on grain. Their baps, bannocks, buns, oatcakes and scones are among the world's finest daily breadstuff's. Warren provides sound recipes for loaves and fishes, as well as for sturdy broses (porridge soups) and broths like the celebrated cock-a-leekie and crab-based partan bree; and, most memorably, the breakfast dishes, like oatcakes and honey, so highly praised by Samuel Johnson...
...guess. You ran the insipid article on the chicken flying contest [July 2] just to see if anyone was reading American Scene. Well I read it, and I find chicken flying in the same category as fox clubbing, dog fighting, cock righting and rattlesnake throwing...
...only imagine what Jim Morrison saw on the night of this, his last big concert, immobile, looking emptily at twisted, let-down faces, he unzipped his fly: "You wanna see my cock?" he said and smiled peacefully. The police dragged him off the stage and busted him for indecent exposure...
Never having had a sister, mother or female friends in military school, he believes the older soldier's explaination of sex as "shoving your cock into a tin of worms." His responses to women are sexual and unemotional until he meets the brigadier's daughter. Then Scorton's emotional intensity seems somewhat inconsistent with his previous behavior. The stormy relationship with his wife, which takes on all the atmosphere and language of a battle, lacks the same color and strength of his dalliance with the two sisters...
...Buenos Aires, he, too, has lost faith in historical inevitabilities. After recounting his tales of party adventures, he shrugs: "it was crazy, but that's history." Later, sitting behind a table with his bathrobe open, he mutters: "There are times when it all seems to come out of the cock...