Word: cooked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Morse, in a sulphurous 1960 speech from the Senate floor, "need to be warned before it is too late about the threat which is arising as a result of the monopolistic practices of the Newhouse interests." That same year, when Newhouse bought into two Springfield, Mass, dailies, Sidney R. Cook, treasurer and board member, promptly called the interloper "a menace" and "a graveyard superintendent" who "goes around picking up the bones?preying on widows and split families." Added Cook: "I can tell you this. Newhouse will never get into Springfield." Newhouse has not since set foot in the city...
Across the U.S., some 250 condemned men are languishing behind bars, waiting to be executed for their crimes. Almost all of them could join in the lament of Paul Orville Crump, an inmate of Cook County (Ill.) jail: "I don't want to die. I want to live." To the State of Illinois, Crump is Prisoner 143384, male Negro, age 32-a convicted murderer sentenced to die in the electric chair Aug. 3. Crump's fight for life has stirred the biggest and most surprising outburst of clemency pleas since the Caryl Chessman case two years...
...metropolitan daily. Aggie still retains that distinction, but now she is much more than a curiosity. Last week the National Federation of Press Women chose her "the most outstanding woman in journalism." To this, proud Hobbyist Aggie added, with a gruff note of femininity: "And a damn good cook...
Milton E. Cohen, the Square's latest entrepreneur, is a short-order cook and also what J. B. Priestly would call an Antiant. Antiants, you know, are men dedicated to the fight against the man-produced society, and Milty is a batallion in himself. For he believes that cheap sandwiches can be good and can command the interest of both counter-man and consumer. Milty's own phrase is "I don't make sandwiches, I build 'em"--and that's a pretty stirring battle cry to my ears...
King Edward VII refused to dine at friends' houses unless Rosa was there to cook the bland, boiled food that, in her words, "would not spill down is shirt front." Edward was an ardent patron of the hotel, which had a private entrance around the corner for merry monarchs and squires on the spree; as Prince of Wales he reputedly bankrolled his blonde, blue-eyed friend when she bought the Cavendish in 1902. "One king leads to another," she used to say. Soon the Kaiser became one of her best customers, and grew so fond of her cuisine that...