Word: cowboyed
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...Eastern Europe to point at Western Europe. A President, who ate quiche, came up with a plan: NATO would put new missiles in Western Europe. If the Soviets would remove their missiles pointed at Western Europe, NATO would remove the missiles in Western Europe. A President with a cowboy fixation got tough with the evil empire. His PR men changed the plan's name. "Two track" became "Zero Option," and the quiche-eater was pushed out of the spotlight...
...problem with "Zero Option" was that some people in Western Europe were more worried about their own missiles than the ones that were pointed at them. But the cowboy stuck to his guns...
...NATO to pull together and point even more missiles at Moscow. The new Soviet king of the hill, Mike, got a sensational new idea. He offered to remove the missiles pointed at Western Europe if NATO would remove the missiles in Western Europe. Mike's PR men pushed the cowboy out of the spotlight and took the credit...
...around about sundown, and you and your mates are interesting, bookish but not stodgy, you stand a good chance of being stood to supper. The beef is from her own Charolais, the vegetables from the hothouse. The music might be an old somebody-done-somebody-wrong cowboy song. Also, the same trick works at noonday if you catch her with one or two spare biscuits in the pan. "I don't mind feeding the customers," Winifred says. "I like good conversation at my table...
Features: Rich people wearing cowboy hats...