Word: corking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perspective on great-power conflicts back in 1961, when U.S. agents obtained possession of a 40,000-word sheaf of secret bulletins that had been issued to officers by the General Political Affairs Department of Red China's army. In one bulletin, Laos was described as an imperialist cork to keep Chinese influence out of Southeast Asia...
...rate, TIME'S Atlantic Edition has more readers in Ireland per capita than anywhere else in Europe. Last week's cover story on Prime Minister Lemass quickly replaced Kennedy's visit as a subject of Irish conversation. News dealers in Dublin and Cork had to put copies under the counter for their regulars, though thousands of extra copies were rushed over from London. It was a great day for the Irish-so much so that when the leader of the parliamentary opposition, whose name was unfortunately not mentioned in the story, took to the floor to accuse...
...their probity and discipline command the admiration of Africans and Belgians alike. The experience has added a new term of abuse to the Irishman's copious vocabulary of invective: "You bloody Baluba!"* The U.N. Irish have taught many a native to dance a jig. Says a captain from Cork: "Only the Irish and other heathens can appreciate our dahling pipes...
...shiny new plants in Shannon, Cork, Limerick, Dublin and Killarney ("Just like the Black Forest," says a West German industrialist who has built a factory there) have worked no economic miracle in Ireland to compare with Europe's boom. But industrial production has risen 20% in three years...
There certainly were-by the hundreds of cheering thousands. On the first leg of his European trip President Kennedy's reception swept almost beyond the bounds of reality. From Cologne to County Cork, in Bonn and Berlin, in Dublin and Dunganstown, the emotional experiences built up. Some were framed in laughter, others in tears -and still others in bitter reminders of man's inhumanity to man. There was tea in an Irish barnyard and a mighty buss from a motherly country cousin. There was a hushed moment as two men of different ages and ideas-Kennedy and Adenauer...