Word: corking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...notably more successful than another daring plan hatched in Cairo. In November 1941, British commandos under 24-year-old Lieut. Colonel Geoffrey Keyes made their way 200 miles behind Axis lines in an attempt to capture or assassinate Nazi General Erwin Rommel. At night, with cork-blackened faces, Keyes and his commandos achieved complete surprise, wrecked Rommel's HQ with grenades. But Keyes was killed and Rommel was untouched: he had gone to a birthday party...
...wasn't a very convincing performance, but Idaho Democrats didn't have much to choose from. Glen's principal rival was D. Worth Clark, whom Glen had unseated back in 1944. Clark, who plays no musical instrument whatever, had gone into law practice with Tommy ("The Cork") Corcoran in Washington, D.C. after his defeat. He scarcely bothered to campaign, and when he did, botched it. On the eve of the election, he began a 15-minute broadcast, but after five fuzzy minutes, it was cut off without explanation. Even so, last week Clark defeated Glen Taylor...
...arachnids which do not make webs are the "wolf spiders" or hunters, which live in little parapets like watchtowers, from which they leap forth and run down their prey by sheer speed. This group includes the stupid Lycosa, which, when deprived of her cocoon containing young, will accept a cork ball of the same shape and fondle it tenderly. There is also the jumping spider, which stalks her prey like a cat, and pounces when in range. The jumping spider has the best eyesight of all arachnids, with four of her eight eyes on the flattened front of her head...
...Clifford J. Backstrand, 52, moved in as president of the $112 million Armstrong Cork Co. when 65-year-old Henning Webb Prentis Jr. moved up to chairman of the board. Known as a "driver and organizer," Backstrand drove himself up the Armstrong ladder from student salesman in 1921 to first vice president in 1945, was largely responsible for boosting the company's war production from $500,000 in 1941 to $39 million...
English. Maurois skillfully retells the familiar story of the foppish, incredibly hypochondriac man, who, in a cork-lined, fumigated bedroom, wrote a mordant masterpiece about the decay of French society. Maurois heavily emphasizes the weaknesses in Proust's character-his dependence on his mother, his excessive need to be sure of the admiration of his friends, his failure to establish a normal love life, his toadying to decadent aristocrats. This Proust is a very sick man, but did his sickness dictate Remembrance of Things Past...