Word: cook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within the hour, Don Vicente had his toothpick-thin cook, La Maga (The Wizard), at work. By nightfall, he had sent a ten-liter container by air to Gilberto Bosques, Mexican ambassador in Lisbon, with instructions on how to give a mole banquet for leading Portuguese statesmen. Free samples also went to restaurants and hotels in the big cities of the world. Said Don Vicente: "No one who eats mole can think of war and death...
...Frederick A. Cook, who claimed to be the first man to have reached the North Pole, threatened to bring a libel action (Author Mirsky had glacially described his account of his polar trip as "exciting and well-written, but . . . mainly fiction")*.-Now-revised, mapped, brought up to date-this magnificent history is again available to the public...
...hearty "Harvard Vets Oppose MacArthur" headline. But the ad itself cannot be held responsible for what people infer. If, as in this case. Boston newsmen don't have time to do a little investigating, if they happen to interpret paid political ads erroneously, it is no fault of Chandler, Cook, and Knight...
...meant to be. It's as a human picture that it triumphs-a human picture in which frustration lives on delightful if not always convincing terms with farce. Tempers get sharper as everything else on the AK 601 gets duller. Denied the simpler masculine pleasures, guys cook up the most elaborate schoolboy pranks; the brinier the life, the earthier the lingo...
...Giegengack's power-pregnant Yalies, who whacked the Varsity last week 82 to 27, finished a strong second behind NYU in the team scoring. They won the hurdles (George Cook), the shot (Him Fuchs), and the mile relay (Burdick, Stoltman, Paradise, Lucke), and scored in the 35-pound weight throw, the broad jump, and the pole-vault for a total of 23 1/4 points...