Word: hocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hock-High in Horses. Happily contradicting this gloomy picture is the better military academy, more academic than military, which is actually a first-rate college preparatory school. Perhaps the best example is Indiana's big (838 boys) Culver Military Academy on the shores of Lake Maxinkuckee. Last week Culver was putting on a $5,000,000 fund-raising campaign for a "Program for Excellence" that will create 70 new scholarships, build a center for alumni and parents, endow faculty salaries with $2,250,000. Even without all this, Culver has more excellence than most civilian schools...
Culver is a 1,400-acre complex of parapets and playing fields that looms out of monotonous farmland like a Hollywood blend of West Point, Dunsinane and Fort Laramie. The school is hock-high in horses-140 of them-plus an indoor polo field, 150 boats, twelve football fields, 15 tennis courts, a bakery and a barbershop, as well as a 44-room hotel and a 64-room motel for visiting parents and girls down for dances. But most of all, Culver has academic status: 99.2% of its graduates have gone to college (and not predominantly to service academies-only...
Talk is not cheap at the United Nations, which is usually in hock up to its earphones because delinquent members fail to pay their dues. Year after year, the U.S. picks up the check for more than one-third of the U.N.'s total costs. Of this year's regular $64 million assessments, the U.S. was assigned $22.3 million, has already paid...
...waning public appetite for vulgarity in journalism had turned the Hearst papers into anachronisms, with little experience in what the new reader wanted. In 1937 a team of horrified accountants, assigned to probe Hearst's 94-corporation maze, discovered that The Chief was $126 million in hock. Neither Hearst nor his papers ever recovered from their retrenchment...
...accountant whose only distinction is that his brother is Shelmerdine Peacock, the famous Hollywood star. At the annual company dinner, Accountant Peacock tries desperately-and fails-to attract attention with his Negro-dialect reminiscences ("The last time I saw 1'il ole brudder Shel . . ."). Fortified with whisky, sherry, hock, Volnay and brandy, Peacock resorts at last to his only trick-demonstrating the "stage fall" that his brother had taught him. At the end of the party, his audience gone, Peacock falls flat a few more times for the benefit of Queen Victoria-whose portrait stares disapprovingly at him from...