Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graceful ambassador from a vanished, less hectic age. As a cool breeze billowed sails and spirits and Navy guns fired in salute, some spectators reacted with the quiet awe that is more commonly found in gazing at great cathedrals. "I feel like I'm watching history," said Julie Cook of Brookville, Pa. She was indeed...
...range site, where more than 12,000 unexploded bombs have already been safely disposed of, do the tensions seem to fade. There outsiders and locals--whites, blacks, Asians and Indians from the nearby Schurz reservation --work in syncopated drudgery. "They're a pretty nice bunch of guys," says Mike Cook, 31, an out-of-work miner from Tombstone, Ariz., who lives with his wife and four kids in a car to save money. Hoisting a 40-lb. piece of metal, he adds, "You have to be pretty crazy to be a scraphog...
...trouble forgetting his girlfriend Sarah Williams, who was blown up by a car bomb nearly five years earlier while driving in Minneapolis with some Chilean refugees. In those days, Pierce was a University of Chicago law student who harbored political ambitions. Now he is a prosecutor in the Cook County D.A.'s office and has been offered the Democratic machine's support for an Illinois congressional seat. Isaac Green, his influential mentor, gives him a pep talk: "You'll shine amongst them, Fielding. Shine. Your honesty. Your toughness. Your respect for decency and enduring values...
...killed itself," Mayor Harold Washington said jubilantly last week of Chicago's once powerful political machine after his two candidates triumphed in special elections for the 50-member city council. The victories at last / erased the so-called majority bloc of 29 aldermen led by an implacable Washington foe, Cook County Democratic Chairman Edward R. Vrdolyak. The majority had stymied the mayor during his three years in office, blocking appointments and frustrating his efforts to reduce a $78 million budget deficit. Seven special aldermanic elections this year, including last week's, have left the council divided into Washington and Vrdolyak...
...summer of 1976, Judkins, then a 19-year-old New Hampshire boy attending Haverford College, signed on as a cook with a circus bound for broke. Cooking led to a truck-driving job, then magician, then fire-eater ("It's just basic common sense. Heat rises. Keep the heat going up. Keep your mouth wet--and your mustache trimmed"), then sideshow manager, then ringmaster. Then the show went bankrupt. Judkins' last task, in December 1977, was to return an elephant leased from D.R. Miller. Hauling a rented trailer that the elephant was systematically reducing to bits, Judkins reached Hugo penniless...