Word: cooked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the blackened buildings cooled, Director Clarence Cook Little walked sadly among the cages of roasted or suffocated mice. A few "little fellows" looked up with frightened eyes, among them two elderly, fat yellow mice. But survivors were few. Out of the 90,000, only 55 were alive...
...passengers and seven crew members-one of the biggest human cargoes ever crammed into a transatlantic airplane. After a night in the air, the complaints grew. The steward served nothing but orange or tomato juice for breakfast, told passengers tartly that he "had other things to do beside cook food...
...woman interviewer, "is at least as great as making a buck." The author of A Thousand Shall Fall did not mean, he hastened to add, that women should "just stay in the kitchen," but: "After all, somebody has to bring home the bacon and somebody has to cook it. But it is not a natural man's nature to bake the bacon...
...million on their way from South Africa last week to relieve the monotony of the British diet. They were filled with snoek (rhymes with cook). "I've never met a snoek face to face," said Food Minister John Strachey, announcing the purchase, "so I can't tell you much about it except that it's four feet long and slender." But the dictionary defined snoek as a form of barracuda, and Strachey's press conference broke up under the firm impression that snoek was a maritime menace. A Daily Mail headline promptly labeled the snoek...
Terrier strategists landed curvaceous drum majorette Priscilla "Cookie" Cook from a helicopter which descended upon the newly sodded spot where the recently burned initials of B.U. were barely visible. "Cookie's" high stopping and wide swinging almost scorched the stadium floor anew...