Word: corking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less creditable was the varsity's victory in the 440-yard freestyle. Tom Cochran won with a 5:20.5, followed by Jack Casoni, and Bill Cork, both of Penn...
...date, more than 75 U.S. companies have asked BBDO to train their staffs in the techniques of brainstorming. Corning Glass came looking for new ways to use glass in autos; General Electric wanted to improve its company newspaper; Armstrong Cork Co. was at a loss over how to celebrate Inventors' Night for 104 employees who had won patents for new processes. In the same way, hundreds of other companies have set up their own brainstorm sessions for plant personnel, modified the idea for their own use. B. F. Goodrich Co., for example, likes to use nontechnical workers to help...
...Lyndon Johnson once dropped by his office for a drink and a chat. Knowland had one bottle on hand, which he kept in a refrigerator. He had no corkscrew, and his ice trays were frozen fast from long disuse. Bill struggled futilely for 15 minutes, trying to get the cork out of the bottle. Lyndon finally dragged him upstairs to his own office-"where we know how to open bottles." Now Knowland keeps a well-stocked refrigerator for thirsty colleagues. Such concessions to Senate society have helped him in his work-but they have not slowed his man-killing pace...
...embarked on one of the strangest pottery-sculpture adventures since the ancient Zapotecs cooled their kilns. As Artigas described the process to the French art review L'Oeil, "Miró had collected objects over the years . . . an empty sardine can flattened by a truck, odd pieces of cork, rubber, glass, rocks . . . These chance encounters became sculptural elements to be translated into pottery." Artigas and his 18-year-old son would shape these elements in clay; Miró would add his "signs": a star, a circle, a crescent...
...Milwaukee Port Director Harry C. Brockel: "The Supreme Court decision creates a dangerous precedent . . . The Great Lakes have a great many jobs of their own to do without becoming the village water tower for the eastern half of the United States. Enough of these diversion plans will pull the cork out of the bathtub...