Word: cooked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also be on the grounds round the clock to answer special calls. The memory of last year's multimillion-dollar holocaust that gutted the modern McCormick Place convention hall-it probably would have housed this year's convention-is still painfully fresh. If mass arrests overflow the Cook County Jail, officials are prepared to put prisoners in tents in the jail yard. While the candidates trade charges on whether the convention is open or closed, it is, physically at any rate, the tightest in U.S. history-a kind of Stalag '68. Already the demonstrators have achieved...
...Catholic mother, wife, lover, therapist, chauffeur, social worker, comforter, healer, organizer, charity worker, cook, gardener, laundress, carpenter, secretary, messenger, nurse, artist, interior decorator, landscaper and homemaker, rhythm has wrought me babies, frustration, anger, frigidity, sorrow, incompatibility, bitchery, unhappiness, disillusionment, dissatisfaction, discontent, bitterness, instability and more babies...
...without the cards who does the strongest talking. I've got the cards." Nixon was so confident of his hand that he tarried on Long Island during the preconvention weekend. On Monday morning, he appeared at a naturalization proceeding in New York on behalf of his Cuban driver and cook, Manolo and Fina Sanchez. When he got to Miami Beach that evening, Rockefeller and Reagan were frantically and forlornly scampering after delegates. By this time, the hot Florida sun had finally hatched Reagan's official candidacy...
Enemy Property. The family involvement ended abruptly in 1928, when John's sons sold their thriving business to Wagons-Lits, the Brussels-based sleeping-car company that ran the Orient Express. After Germany invaded Belgium during World War II, Cook's assets in Britain became enemy property. They were eventually handed over to the four major British railways to manage, and, as a byproduct of the rails' nationalization in 1948, the government took over Thos. Cook...
Over the years, Cook's services have been sought by princes and kings, including Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, whose visit to Jerusalem Cook's arranged in 1898. It required 300 tents, 800 mule drivers, 1,430 mules and camels and a small army of servants to keep the Kaiser and his retinue comfortable on the journey. Cook's has never since done anything on quite such grandiose scale. It hopes from now on to increase profits by presenting a more proletarian image...