Word: cooked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Side Bloc. The situation was this: for years, the balance of power in the closely divided Illinois assembly has been held by a handful of nominal Republicans, most of them coming from Cook County and, for the sake of reelection, more than willing to play footsie with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machine. It was with the help of this group that in 1961 the assembly, although it had a narrow Republican majority, nonetheless elected a Democratic speaker. The so-called "West Side bloc" also gave the state Republican Party a bad image by standing steadfastly against...
...represent the $5,000,000 worth of Newmont stock held by her mother's estate. Presumably, she'll be getting plenty of mature male advice. But those blue-suited young Wall Streeters had better not apply. She is already engaged to Harvard Graduate Student William Ewald Cook...
...Hungarian extraction who had worked for Studebaker all their lives and had never before hunted for a job. Testing by the Indiana Employment Security Division showed that more than a tenth of the men had forgotten-or never knew-how to read and write with any skill. One cook, for example, had memorized the first letter of each item on the menu, and thus hid his illiteracy; his downfall came when the boss ordered him to get some wine and he could not read the labels. The first step, for many, had to be elementary schooling...
...Congressmen when they returned with a telling set of photographs. The tenants are "living in deplorable poverty with little evidence of concern by their millionaire landlords." Said Snyder: "We found tenants living in three-and four-room shacks with cracks in the flooring, leaking roofs, broken wood-burning cook stoves, some at least 50 years old, and no toilet facilities." Said Martin: "If I owned property like that, I'd feel it a moral obligation to make it comfortable and adequate. At least so the roof doesn't leak every time it rains, so the water doesn...
...proud Nonagenarian Paolo further insists that it be consumed correctly-with only a fork and with as little sauce as possible. Shocked when he heard that Germans were eating spaghetti as a side dish to sausage, Agnesi dispatched Imperia's best chef to the Munich trade fair to cook up 35,000 servings and teach the Hausfrauen their spaghetiquette. Germany is now the company's second biggest export market, after Switzerland...