Word: corking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five years the rows of inverted ice trays that light Lamont Library have hummed nearly 13 hours a day, six days a week, above the heads of studying undergraduates. This month the cork, steel and glass structure celebrates its birthday. With certain reservations, it has fulfilled the expectations of its planners as America's model college reading library...
...Administrative Board were to extend parictal rules from ten a.m. to one p.m., (the usual hours the maids work), it would pull the cork that would send this free help pouring into the Houses. The new maids would of course bring their own brooms, mops and soap...
...sunk for every torpedoed Allied ship. Destroyers were an indispensable factor in winning the Battle of the Atlantic, an indispensable condition to the Allied landing in Europe. Their laconic action reports sometimes suggested the grim human drama they played on the high seas: "Debris in area of attack included cork slabs, wood, diesel oil, and human entrails...
...billion dollar Truth, Crusade to show that cigarette smoking does not cause lung cancer. Televised "medical dramatizations" will disclose that tars and resins have been painted on the backs of three thousand woman with "no adverse effects." Magazine ads will portray prominent Park Avenue Russian wolfhounds smoking cork tips...
Paint Every Two Years. For all its fiscal stability, Portugal is still a poor country where initiative withers in the gloom of resignation. The people who grow Portugal's olives, make its port, strip its cork, net and pack its sardines, mine its rich wolfram ore deposits, live in limpidly beautiful villages with white-painted cottages (a 1949 Salazar decree requires a new paint job every two years) amidst some of the world's grandest scenery. But Dictator Salazar has never balanced his people's household budgets. Poverty and disease are widespread. Illiteracy...