5 October 2012 – cosset

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Today’s WOTD – 5 October 2012

cosset

[kos-it]

verb (used with object)

1. to treat as a pet; pamper; coddle.
2. care for and protect in an overindulgent way. (Oxford Dictionary of English)
For example:
‘All her life she’d been cosseted by her family’.

Today’s aphorism

‘Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go’.

T.S. Elliot

On this day

5 October 1902 – birth of Ray Kroc, founder of MacDonalds … and the Big Mac … Died

5 October 1945 – Hollywood Black Friday – following a 6 month strike by set decorators, a violent riot breaks out at the gates of Warner Brothers studio. 300 police are called and 40 people are injured.

5 October 1945 – birth of Brian Connolly, Scottish rocker, lead singer of Sweet (Fox on the Run, Ballroom Blitz, Teenage Rampage, Action). Died 9 February 1997.

5 October 1947 – birth of Brian Johnson, English rocker, lead singer of AC/DC, replacing Bon Scott.

5 October 1951 – birth of Bob Geldoff, Irish singer for the Boomtown Rats.

5 October 1969 – Monty Python’s Flying Circus first broadcast on BBC-TV.

5 October 2011 – death of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple. Born 24 February 1955.

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