Word: cooked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coast Guard boarding party found three bullet-riddled bodies in the aft cabin. The body of Captain Rogelio Díaz, 38, was not on the bridge, but a trail of blood led over the side. Gone were Ramírez, Second Engineer Salomon Franco and Cook Gerald Davison-and the ship's 14-ft. dinghy...
Seventeen features pubescent models and a coy vocabulary. With a little effort, the magazine contends, any ugly duckling can end up with a "dream dress," a "dream complexion," a "dream date." In the language of the trade, Seventeen is a "how-to" magazine; it tells how to cook shish kebab, how to jazz up a bedroom, how to avoid going too far with a boy friend...
Some swap offers sound too good to be true. A resident of Turtle Cove, Jamaica, is willing to turn over his four-bedroom house with private beach, swimming pool set in a natural garden, car, dinghy and sailboat, plus the services of a butler, cook, maid and gardener. He wants in exchange a big-city apartment. And he will settle for any one of six cities-New York, London, Paris, Rome, Madrid and Geneva. But he is choosy. After thumbing through dozens of offers, he still has not found one sumptuous enough to suit him. Time is running short...
...rebuttal. "I thought our job was done when the case got to the Supreme Court," Clark says. But the NAACP lawyers decided that the psychological evidence, much of it precedent-shattering, would be more effective as a separately bound brief, so Clark, along with Isador Shein and Stuart Cook, prepared the now famous brief, which, smiles Clark, "to our pleasant surprise the Court accepted...
...venial sifts against the language seem to amuse rather than affront him. Under ROOFTOP, he complains mildly: "What would a rooftop be, anyway? Use housetop or just plain roof." He quotes a recipe. "Now throw in two tablespoons full of chopped parsley and cook ten minutes more. The quail ought to be tender by then." Then Bernstein makes his point: "Never mind the quail, how are we ever going to get those tablespoons tender? The word is tablespoonfuls, no matter how illogical it seems...