Word: cocking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speak for any armed group,? said leader Gerry Adams, denying what he?d always tacitly admitted -- regular contact with the Republican Army council. In a short statement, the IRA said the truce ?is intact? -- but pointedly did not refuse responsibility for the killings. Protestant leaders are publicly somber, privately cock-a-hoop at the thought of waving Sinn Fein good-bye. Said Reverend Ian Paisley, leader of the Democratic Unionists: ?I told...
...Microsoft monopoly was simply too great to be ignored until the suit was settled ? which could take some time, especially since the judge appointed a top legal scholar from Harvard to study the case and make recommendations. Not surprisingly, Joel Klein ? the DOJ's top trustbuster ? was cock-a-hoop. "Starting tomorrow, choice will be restored to the public," he told reporters Thursday. Added his boss, Janet Reno: "It will help ensure a competitive market and prevent Microsoft from using its dominance to gain an unfair advantage in the browser market...
...Cock fighting in the Phillipines...
There have been suggestions in the London press that Al Fayed encouraged his son to court Diana as a way to get back--or, as the Independent put it, "cock a snook"--at the British Establishment. Nothing would have made him happier, some royal watchers contend, than for his son to become stepfather to the future King of England. Dodi and Diana's liaison reportedly began when the elder Al Fayed invited the princess and her two sons to vacation with his family at his villa in St.-Tropez. Adnan Khashoggi told a Saudi newspaper last month, "We welcome Diana...
...freshly hatched chickens. But when these Plymouth Rock hatchlings began chirping, it was clear that they were rare birds indeed. Instead of launching into the usual chicken songs, they crowed and bobbed like baby quail. Some harkened to danger calls from adult quail but didn't so much as cock-a-doodle-doo when called by mama hens...