Word: corking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long time before he learned to ignore the sensation of being throttled 21,600 times a day. Another annoyance to be ignored was the incessant throbbing of the pump. But he quickly learned to control his tongue and prevent its being sucked into his throat like a cork at every inhalation...
Over the mountains there is no room for 1,000,000 tribesmen. French settlers and more sedentary tribes have long preempted all the available cork forests, vineyards, barley fields. Suddenly alive to its danger, the Government last week sent Administrator Steeg and his party to the scene of the hunger march, and voted $2,250,000 relief money to match $450,000 which the Banque d'Etat de Maroc has already put up to buy food for the starving tribes. Distribution of free barley and mutton has already started...
...California Legislature authorized a Bridge District with power to build the bridge, it took six years of legal battle before the U. S. Supreme Court permitted it to proceed. The War Department debated a year before giving its permission, fearing that destruction of the bridge during a war would cork the harbor. Shipping interests fought it bitterly and the Government finally imposed a high-tide clearance 100 ft. higher than Brooklyn Bridge's. The PWA refused to help, as did most banks. Then Amadeo Peter Giannini's Bank of America took the bonds which financed it.* These preliminaries...
Beyond anthropology the connections between Spain and Ireland are clearer. Bilbao is only 660 miles from Cork. Not only potato growers but Spanish and Irish fishermen have been rivals, sometimes friends, for centuries. The Spanish Armada was wrecked off the coast of Ireland, is blamed for the "black" Irish of the Western Isles. The Irish Duke of Wellington was made a Spanish Grandee...
...because Green had not yet recovered from the wounds he received in ''God's Kingdom No. 1." -In 1916 an optometrist of Youngstown, Ohio named Dr. Harman G. Huffman fasted 59 days to cure his heart trouble, died of starvation. In 1920 Mayor Terence MacSwiney of Cork lasted 74 days before dying of starvation as a political gesture...