Word: corking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henceforth, such items as French gloves and cheeses, Italian cork and coffin handles, will be admitted to the British market without quota restrictions. Swiss hoteliers rubbed their hands at the prospect of British tourists with enough money to spend a week or more instead of a few days. "A British accent" glowed London's Daily Express, "will no longer be a passport to the worst table in the restaurant...
...Connor sees it, the reason for his TV success is that television closely approximates the conditions of vaudeville, and vaudeville is where he learned all he knows about show business ("I had my first walk-on part when I was 13 months old"). His father was a County Cork strongman and circus leaper who could spring from a trampoline over the backs of four elephants. His mother was so determined a trouper that she kept on performing until three days before Donald was born, 27 years ago. With his parents and six brothers & sisters, Donald toured the U.S. three times...
...floor, six separate labs are insulated by aluminum-painted cork and cooled by chemical refrigerants that circulate from great tanks on the roof. The "Wet Snow" lab, warmest of the six, stays at one degree above freezing, while one man at a time works with snow shipped down by refrigerated trucks from Michigan and northern Wisconsin. The added body heat of a second scientist might melt away an expensive experiment...
...been formed to do some persuading. The council, he thought, would get a good reception from business. Its members: former Chairman Irving Olds of U.S. Steel, Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors, Chairman Walter Paepcke of the Container Corp., Chairman Henning W. Prentis Jr. of Armstrong Cork, Frank Abrams...
...diver, merely by filling or emptying his lungs, can change his waterborne weight by as much as 12 lbs. Let a diver deflate his lungs and he sinks like a stone; inflate them, he pops up like a cork; intermediate effects are easily learned. But descent below 300 ft. becomes increasingly dangerous. One reason for this is something Author Cousteau calls, from experience, the "rapture of the great depths...