Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...EARL C. COOK Buenos Aires...
...Charles and Princess Anne, walked out of the castle onto the closely cropped lawn. As a group of reporters and photographers (admitted to the grounds under a pool arrangement) approached, Ike put his hand on Princess Anne's blonde head. Asked he: "Are you going to learn to cook?" The Queen answered for her daughter: "I'll send you some samples...
Communist Curtain. Amana's ex-peasants practiced a non-Marxist communism, holding all property in common because possessions foster false pride. Bearded church elders dictated every man's job, had the women cook for all in big communal kitchens, punished any show of vanity, such as wearing "world clothes" rather than modest calico...
...many African territories illiteracy runs as high as 90%, and everywhere the Dark Continent is, like no other place on earth, dark at night. After the cook fires are out, superstition flourishes. Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah once explained the need for rural electrification by saying, "One electric light drives away the ghosts." The most sophisticated-politicians, graduates of European universities, have solemnly accused their opponents of raising juju against them...
...doomed from the first to failure by Author Sitwell's indifference to the search, the hero finds himself back home. Was he really on a Cook's Tour of many possible purgatories, or was it all a dream? Apparently it was no dream. When Sitwell sees a kitten, the animal will have nothing to do with him, it arches its back and its tail goes up straight, for "I have been down among dead men and the cat knows it." Sitwell's final guess is typical: "As with human beings, so with all creatures, their...