Word: cooked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sheet-metal worker, Daley has spent his life on the public payroll and in the "organization," to reach what some consider the third most important elective office in the United States, following the President and the Mayor of New York. After helping Jake Arvey, boss of Cook Country's Democratic organization, boost Adlai Stevenson for the governorship in 1948, Daley became county clerk which, in effect, put him in control of patronage and voting machinery, From this position, he could and did build a machine. By 1955 he was strong enough to buck Arvey and become chairman of the country...
...Observer's freewheeling columnist tacked into journalism in a typically roundabout feminine way. The offspring of a long line of Presbyterian ministers, she proved impervious to the polish of six secondary schools and Cambridge University, toured the U.S. working as a waitress and short-order cook, then returned to England and became a journalist...
...from it. Fifty years ago, Texans were riding against Pancho Villa. That's history pretty close by. Here in Texas there is a first generation of city dwellers who understand the country. People who live in cities still know how to work hard, get up early, sew and cook. They still put up provisions and keep vegetable gardens. These are a thrifty people. These are people who say, 'If you don't need it, don't buy it.' Lots of city people, just like country people, have just one good suit...
...even F.D.R.'s New Deal (WPA, PWA, NRA, etc., etc.) managed to cook up such a rich alphabet soup. Government agencies, politicians, labor unions, all 22 states and 13 political parties are known by their initials. BAA, BLA, BAP, BAM and BUM are prominent banks. MIC is the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, while MEC is the Ministry of Education and Culture, and MAC is a political action group called the Movimento Anticomunista. For slum clearance there is nothing quite so efficient as MUD (Democratic Urbanization Movement). And tax evaders must constantly watch out for the dread SFPRICFN, which...
Knock on the Door. After the pictures, it was time to head for the dining room, where Cook Zephyr Wright waited with a holiday meal featuring turkey and corn-bread stuffing and sweet potato pie topped with marshmallows. But hold on there. "Come in and see our house," said the President to the reporters. "It'll just take a minute." Lady Bird looked pained. "Honey," she said in wifely tones, "I promise I'll give all these folks a wonderful tour when they come for the barbecue on Friday." Johnson hugged her, whispered something. "Whatever you say, honey...