Word: crocks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...replaced by the more homely peasant formula, "They celebrated their wedding, and are still alive to this very day and chewing bread." Many stories end with a hint by the storyteller that he is hungry and thirsty after his labors. "There's a tale for you and a crock of butter for me" ... "I was at their wedding and drank beer and wine: it ran down my mustache but did not go into my mouth" ... "And the knight married the princess Paliusha and gave a most wonderful feast. I dined and drank mead with them, and their cabbage...
...Crock, 'Kraut, Cakes...
Boston Mayor Kevin H. White put up a meal of two New England lobsters, a crock of baked beans, and two tickets to the Yankee Doodle Game (part of the Massachusetts lottery). Therefore Berry, mayor of Cincinnati, offered "a good German dinner, consisting of sauerbraten, sauerkraut, potato cakes, and good German beer...
Died. General Anthony C. McAuliffe, 77, hero of the Battle of the Bulge; of leukemia; in Washington. Left in temporary command of the 101st Airborne Division during a rest period, feisty "Old Crock" McAuliffe was ordered to hold the Belgian road hub of Bastogne when the Nazis launched a desperate counteroffensive in the icy whiter of 1944. McAuliffe's 10,000 men were surrounded by Panzers, outnumbered 4 to 1, and running short of food, medicine and ammunition when a German officer arrived with the surrender ultimatum that brought the U.S. general's famous, quickly scrawled reply...
While Brown was making his victory statement on TV and promising to bring a "new spirit" to Sacramento, his performance was being closely appraised by the Republican candidate who had also won that evening, State Controller Houston Flournoy. "What a crock," Flournoy muttered to no one in particular and then went downstairs to make his own TV appearance...