Word: cooks
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Canning the tomato is the triumph of the ego, the suppression of the natural, the inexorable advance of civilization. Technology has found a way to "cook" the tomato without shriveling it to an inedible rind. One simply puts the dangerous natural tomato into a can. Magically it is civilized, it is cooked. Now take it out of the can and it is "safe" to eat the tomato...
Today's pattern, according to Campbell, is for women to have children earlier and settle for fewer of them (average U.S. family is now 2.7 children). Says Robert C. Cook, president of Washington's Population Reference Bureau: "There is a growing realization on the part of younger couples in America that rearing children in this complicated and expensive world presents big problems." Among those cited by Cook: "Rising costs of living, increasing competition for education, especially at the college level...
...issued to residents of the United States each year. It now takes an average of 32.4 months to obtain a civil jury trial for a personal injury case in the metropolitan areas of the nation. In Suffolk County, New York, it is 50 months. In the Circuit Court of Cook County, serving Chicago, it is 64 months plus. The clerk of the Suffolk Superior Court in Massachusetts, where the present delay in such civil cases is almost four years, forecast in early December 1967 that it will soon increase to five years. In New York City, as of June...
Harvard finished a strong third in the giant slalom as Peter Carter captured fourth place for the Crimson. He was followed by his brother Larry in 12th and Cook in 14th...
...give pause to the Pulitzer Prize committee that awarded the palm to its author for a novel that was stronger but not much better (Andersonville). The new novel's problem is simple enough: What happens when a twice-widowed white woman falls in love with her male mulatto cook? Pretty much what one would expect down on the Gulf Coast in 1854. He is handsome and graceful and goes by the name of Beauty Beast. He knows what to do with herbs and French sauces, and he can play Mozart and lesser composers on the pianoforte. His mistress, Sidney...