Word: corking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Texas' Democrat Lyndon Johnson, who is in line to become majority leader of the U.S. Senate, flicked some ashes from a cork-tipped cigarette, scanned the roomful of Washington newsmen and spoke softly. "My daddy," said Johnson, "got all of us kids around the table at home when there was a decision to be made. He'd start off with words from Isaiah- 'Come now, and let us reason together.' " The advice that was good for the five little Johnsons, suggested Lyndon, would well serve both Democrats and Republicans for the next two years. Down Pennsylvania...
...father was Patrick McCarran, who left Ireland as a stowaway at 16, joined the First U.S. Dragoons, went to Nevada to fight Chief Winnemucca's Paiutes, and stayed on as a homestead rancher. His mother was Margaret Shea of County Cork, who came to Nevada as a domestic servant. From his parents young Patrick Anthony inherited a fighting spirit and a love of politics. In addition, he cultivated a trait not generally associated with the Irish: patience...
...further reason for dropping the late hours was the misuse of facilities. Lamont librarian Phillip J. McNiff pointed out that cigarette damage was incurred to tables and cork floors, and that lunches had been discarded in the building...
Suddenly a champagne cork popped across the room and struck Bulganin on the head. "Let's use those instead of cannons," he laughed...
FILTERED CIGARETTES' last big holdout, American Tobacco, is giving in. It will bring out a new cellulose-tipped Herbert Tareyton, continue making the old cork-tip, non-filtered Tareyton and, of course, Lucky Strikes...