Word: cos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gypsy, swarming over the infield. Red-faced north-country farmers and pale London clerks elbowed up to canvas stalls to buy jellied eels and winkles. Touts sidled up to them, peddling inside dope. Said one oldster dressed like a jockey: "Blimey, I wish my kids were 'ere. 'Cos if they were, I could put my 'and on their 'eads and swear that this information of mine is the real goods. Now look, ladies and gents, I want you to come back after the race just 'cos I want to see your 'appy, smiling faces...
single steel complex -the five-plant United Steel Cos. Ltd., which last year produced 13½% (2,172,000tons) of all British steel - went on sale to the public last week. It was the first nationalized steel company to be offered for public sale,* thus represented the biggest step yet taken by the Conservatives to turn the industry back, as promised, to private ownership...
...heavy-set roles, traditionally doled out to mezzos, e.g., Brangaene and other secondary parts in Wagner operas, Amneris in Aïda. Last season, as the Met's English-language repertory grew, she turned comedienne, won all-out approval for her beautiful-but-dumb Dorabella in Cosï Fan Tutte. This year, she went still further afield, took on the bearded lady in Stravinsky's Rake's Progress, and managed to give the grotesque part a feeling of femininity and more than its measure...
Rancho Dobe's Storm is a sleek, husky (92 Ibs.) Doberman pinscher who leads a pampered dog's life in suburban Cos Cob, Conn. (pop. 3,100). His nonworking day's routine includes an egg at breakfast, a pound of canned beef at dinner, a romp on the acres of his master, Adman Len Carey, a vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, and a proprietary interest in sleeping on the bed of the Careys' 16-year-old son, Jeff. Every once in a while, for reasons that Storm may not fully understand, he is required...
...Foreign Office's sudden turnabout kicked up a storm in the British press, not so much because of Scientist Powell, but because of what it revealed about the startling laxity of security in the oft-burned Foreign Office. A specialist in cos mic radiation, Powell has a record of affiliation with Communist-line causes. As vice president of the British Peace Com mittee, a Communist propaganda front, he so distinguished himself in its activities that he was nominated to the bureau of the Communist-manipulated World Peace Council (he declined). He twice had visited Atomic Spy Dr. Alan Nunn...