Word: corking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest, he went over the side again, close to the measuring cable. Down he went, while photographers with special equipment recorded the descent. After a long minute and 17 seconds, while anxious officials scanned the choppy water, Bucher bobbed to the surface, beaming in triumph. Aloft he held a cork marker he had pulled from the cable at the new record mark...
...blood-lust drama and socially significant comedy, S. N. Behrman's Jane has the impact of a cork shot out of a pop-gun. For Jane is a return to pre-war English drawing rooms, to a comfortable society which prefers to share Mr. Chamberlin's confidence in Hitler. It is a paradise in which blustering old rakes and acid cynics are the only heavies. Yet, despite its weightlessness, the world of Jane is a highly civilized and amusing place...
...from an obscure post, exercise more power than many an old-style boss. These men, known admiringly as "operators" in Washington, are usually both able and honest, although the Washington experience frequently pays off in subsequent law practice. First of this breed was Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran (1932-38), and the present generation is an improvement on the parent stock...
...Well, my dog was running before me and I saw him stop and sniff something light on the sand, and then he went off in pursuit of sea gulls. I found the object was a brown bottle . . . The cork . . . crumpled in my fingers. How the note kept dry, nobody can understand. It must have been because you mentioned God's name on it, and He brought it to safe harbor . . . I sat there on the beach and read...
Champagne Cork: The United States Rubber Co. began production of a new all-rubber champagne cork which it says will stop costly leakage, keep the wine more effervescent, give a nicer pop when the bottle is opened. Price: about...