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Cooke

[ kook ]

noun

  1. (Alfred) Alistair, 1908–2004, English journalist and broadcaster.
  2. Jay, 1821–1905, U.S. financier.
  3. Terence (James), Cardinal, 1921–83, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: archbishop of New York 1968–83.


Cooke

noun

  1. CookeNorman1963MBritishMUSIC: disc jockeyMUSIC: pop musicianMUSIC: record producer Norman , real name Quentin Cooke , also known as Fatboy Slim. born 1963, British disc jockey, pop musician, and record producer; hit records include You've Come a Long Way, Baby (1998) and "Praise You" (2001)


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“When you vaccinate millions of people, it’s inevitable that you have rare or serious incidences of illnesses that occur after vaccination,” said Cooke.

From Vox

In the movie’s final sequence, Cooke—as a guest on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show—performs the song that Dylan’s anthem spurred him to write.

From Time

With his young family’s future on his mind, Odom wanted to follow in Cooke’s footsteps and produce an activist anthem for generations to come.

Reflecting on the early days of production, last January in New Orleans, Odom recalls that he wasn't yet tuned to Cooke's pitch.

If the two pictures disagree, “that would be a really, really important thing to understand,” Cooke said.

But he had to remember one thing: he was promoting himself at this point, Sam Cooke, not RCA.

Julia Cooke is the author of The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba.

Now, Cooke is out with a memoir detailing his time with the rocker.

However, Cooke can never really bring himself to see Joplin as ruined by the limelight.

Cooke describes Joplin as being “always on the prowl and vocal about it.”

I have spooke to Sr Miles Cooke, who promises to lett me have your settlement to peruse, and to end matters fairly.

Cooke used his literary talents to glorify the plantation type of living and the heroic, military deeds of the war itself.

From thence with Mr. Cooke that made them, and Mr. Stephens the silversmith to the tavern, and did give them a pint of wine.

After dinner, and so to chappell again; and there had another good anthem of Captain Cooke's.

The anthem was good after sermon, being the fifty-first psalme, made for five voices by one of Captain Cooke's boys, a pretty boy.

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