Word: corking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that "they drove him mad." Well established already, says Authoress Maclean, was the "deep division in his nature ... a tendency to react from extreme refinement of feeling to extreme grossness of desire." Wrote Coleridge : "Hazlitt, to the feelings of anger and hatred, phosphorus - it is but to open the cork and it flames!" Wrote Hazlitt to his bride : "I never love you half so well as when I think of sitting down with you to dinner on a boiled scrag-end of mutton, and hot potatoes...
...clock the scene in Gallery E 15, where the famed Maitland F. Griggs Italian paintings hung on special exhibition, was serenely normal: gallerygoers quietly strolled over the cork floor, paused, peered at small pictures invisibly screwed to the walls. At 3:15, a uniformed guard made his routine round of inspection. His eyes widened in horror: only screw holes marked the spot where Simone's St. Thomas had hung. He rushed to his superior. No gong clanged, no revolvers flashed from holsters. People leaving the museum were closely scrutinized. (Frisking or detaining on suspicion on such occasions...
German gold, including upward of $1 billion stolen from occupied countries, pays for espionage and sabotage, electrical equipment from Switzerland, fine steel from Sweden, cork from Portugal, rare metals such as Spam's wolfram (see p. 17). It could also buy a haven for Nazi bigwigs when & if they try to flee from defeated Germany. To stop such traffic, the Allies have done what they could to make Nazi gold not only worthless but an actual liability to those who deal in it. Announced the U.S. Treasury...
...that I was depth-bombed for the first time. None of us knew what to expect from a depth charge. They were most frightening. I remember standing, holding onto the brass ladder as these things went off. With the first few bangs there was a shower of the white cork which lines the hull to absorb moisture. We called the downfall a "white Christmas...
Just after an operation, ordinary skin grafts slip over the tissues beneath; but Dr. Sano's grafts stick so tightly that even a gentle pull with forceps does not move them. For a dressing she uses vaselined gauze topped with a cork ring (not so tight as to hinder circulation...