Word: cocoons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grew out of the cocoon stage. Meeting in Philadelphia in the shadow of the Liberty Bell, the Constitution party chose a Mrs. Stevenson of Connecticut as its leader and girded up its loins to do electoral battle with "the international conspirators for more than a decade." At the top of their endorsement list was Sen. Joseph C. McCarthy with the statement "Anyone who opposes McCarthy is giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the Republic...
...actively evil, but merely weak, his wife has retreated into a cocoon of neuroses. His brother-in-law is a shiftless drunk who pretends he can write, and his journalist daughter is a loveless prig. Sands's first homosexual buddy, a stage designer, has left him for a theatrical producer. His second, a young bookshop manager, is in the clutch of a possessive mother. Bernard Sands feels superior to the shoddy lot until he sees a fellow homosexual dragged away by the police-and suddenly feels ready to side with the law and "join the hounds in the kill...
Tales of Tomorrow (Fri. 9:30 p.m., ABC). The Cocoon, with Jackie Cooper, Edith Fellows...
From the outset, Carter's superior boxing skill clearly outclassed the work of the bumbling, brawling little Mexican. Carter jabbed, poked and stabbed almost at will, while Salas shuffled around the ring, gloves drawn cocoon-like over his face. Every once in a while Salas burst out in a flurry of short-armed punches. For ten rounds it was a monotonous repetition of the first bout. Then, stung by a Carter punch, Salas began to fight...
...slavishly repeating their natural weaving styles on the special platforms they end up weaving cylinders of silk instead of normal cocoons. The two escape vales through which the mature moth must emerge are set at opposite points of the eliptical double layer cocoon, so that the insect is forever sealed within a trap of its own making...