Word: cook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shepard also has two men from last year's jayvees to work with, Renny Johnston and Ed Wadsworth. But the pitchers he will most rely on are Byron Johnson, 4-1 with the varsity last year, and sophomore Wally Cook...
CAPTAIN JAMES COOK dubbed the archipelago the "Sandwich Islands" when he dropped anchor off Kauai in 1778, got a god's welcome from thousands of handsome Polynesians again when he returned the following year, then was killed by natives during a fight over petty thievery. By 1796, the islands were under the firm, beneficent rule of King Kamehameha I. who united the land after ten years of civil war among smaller chieftains, and began turning his domain into a thriving nation. After his death in 1819, his son Liholiho (Kamehameha II) took over, began the systematic abandonment...
...French and Soviet troops-or some neutral countries-maintained minimum forces in West Berlin." Scarcely had Khrushchev said it when Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt rejected the "offer" out of hand. It was, declared Brandt, no more than a scheme to get Soviet troops into West Berlin and "cook the city over a slow fire...
...college graduate says bitterly: "Yes, I can get a job in business, all right: serving tea to the office help." The Japanese male is proving skittish about marrying the emancipated female. He wants an old-fashioned girl just like the girl who married dear old Dad: thrifty, a good cook, plain rather than pretty, cheerful, obedient, and with "just enough spunk to make life interesting...
...Smithies is suited to this rhetorical, ironic drama; he knows how to shape a long speech for maximum effect, and how to deliver a comic line without breaking the tension of a serious scene. Antigone calls Creon a "cook" in the "kitchen of politics," but she cannot realize how a man can be unheroic and still a king; Mr. Smithies, in more than one sense, has the requisite authority. Perhaps Antigone is not supposed to be a play primarily about Creon and the problem of a professional monarch, but without twisting the script noticeably out of shape, Mr. Smithies contrives...