Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ruefully, "To dine out successfully in London today, a rapid course in Spanish and Italian is advisable. But if you want to be sure of getting what you order, ask for spaghetti." In Leeds, the winner of a recent Yorkshire pudding baking contest turned out to be a Chinese cook who spoke no English and called the prize-winning dish shortska po din (because that is how it sounded to him). Native Yorkshiremen were enraged...
...ratings are lackluster as England's general election nears. Tory flacks alerted the press that Bachelor Heath and a blonde were embarking for a sail aboard his yacht Morning Cloud. But Ted sniffed "Absolute nonsense" to all notions of romance, asserting that the lady was merely his sea cook and sailing companion. Then he ran the Morning Cloud aground on a sand...
...American alligator, Southern bald eagle, Columbian white-tailed deer, Utah prairie dog and ivory-billed woodpecker, the largest woodpecker in the U.S. Even so, the mainland has a good record compared with Hawaii, which has destroyed more native plants and animals in the 192 years since Captain Cook's arrival than has all the rest of America in the same period. Hawaii's endangered wildlife -partly ravaged by the introduction of outside predators like mongooses and rats-includes all the fresh-water fish, all the mammals, one-half of the insects, one-half of the land mollusks...
...have publicly taken issue with Nixon are Hickel and George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Both are ex-Governors accustomed to command, and both are frustrated by Nixon's isolation behind the palace guard of Assistants John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman. Romney told TIME Correspondent Jess Cook: "I think the key question that the President is going to have to decide is whether he is to have White House staff people basically responsible in policy areas and playing leadership roles, or whether the Cabinet officers are going to do it." Romney has strong feelings on that point...
...this level, Playwright Myrna Lamb casts one ambiguous vote for hanky-panky. On the Brechtian Greek chorus song-and-dance level she casts one unambiguous vote for women's freedom. The chorus delineates the roles into which women have presumably been thrust and demeaned-cook, clerk, wife, mother and sexual plaything...