Word: corked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highest sources. Secretary of State Dulles said that the U.S. "has no intention of dealing with the Indo-China situation unilaterally"; that it was up to the French, and that there were no plans for asking Congress to act. President Eisenhower, who had once called Indo-China the cork in the bottle, said that without the proper psychological and political foundation, there was no sense in merely using up resources in some local battle. If uncertainty over U.S. intentions had been the only deterrent to Communist Hemands, it was a deterrent no longer...
...Geneva, most delegates took Ike's remarks as proof that the U.S. is willing to settle for a Korea-type stalemate-and this was a hard blow at any attempt to negotiate from strength. Whether half a cork was any better than none would depend on whether the Communists, at Geneva or elsewhere, performed their old miracle of driving the anti-Communist nations together again. Even more, it depended upon a realistic U.S. appraisal of France as it is today. Unless France changes basically, it cannot be considered a key factor in any situation-including the defense of France...
...first week of the conference had begun in confusion and concern, with the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles striving manfully to stiffen the backbone of the divided West. He made it clear that he. like Presi dent Eisenhower, viewed Indo-China as "the cork in the bottle," to be held in place at all costs. Any such compromise settlement as partition of Indo-China, he argued, could only result in ultimate Communist capture of the whole country. Meanwhile, the Chinese Reds showed signs that the prospect of Western military action in Southeast Asia had them worried...
...Board Governor A. L. Mills Jr. and Assistant Commerce Secretary Lothair Teetor both saw increasing signs of an early business upturn. "The gloomy ones may well be caught out in the sunshine with their umbrellas and overshoes on," said Teetor. Though two private economists, Walter E. Hoadley of Armstrong Cork Co. and Dr. Courtney Brown of Columbia University, saw no such sign of a swift upturn, neither could they see any signs of an oncoming bust. The gentle slide, they thought, had just about hit bottom...
...court, Writer Tracy testified that, as a regular contributor to the Sunday Times, she had written about an 82-year-old parish priest in Doneraile, County Cork, Ireland. He had built a new house for himself, she said, by getting contributions from his 2,700 parishioners, who lived in tattered "cottages without water or light," earning an average of only $8 to $11 a week as farm laborers...