Word: corking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saying Mass at a side altar of Hyannis' St. Francis Xavier Church, the Rev. John F. Keough, a visiting priest from Ireland's County Cork, found himself without an altar boy. Leaving his wife and seven children in their pew, an overage volunteer quickly moved in to fill the gap. Not until the congregation had departed did Father Keough learn that his self-appointed assistant had been U.S. Attorney General (and ex-acolyte) Robert F. Kennedy...
...Then in pops Paula Prentiss, a tall, gawkily gorgeous brunette who is, as one girl must be in every properly run comedy, helplessly nearsighted. She is an old flame of Hutton's whom he left, not, as it would happen in the real world, because she had a cork leg or wanted to live in Chicago, but because she had $40 million and he had none. According to the ancient and wonderful rules of this sort of kabuki, Hutton's share of the roulette killing will let him have matrimony with honor...
...native of Cork, O'Criadain has edited Botteghe Oscure, an Italian Literary Review published in Rome and has translated T. S. Eliot "The Wasteland" into Gaelic...
...only when it feels the urge, and never for more than half an hour at a time. Many a luckless sportsman has shivered through an entire night in the dank, cold forest, only to go home at dawn-sniffling and hungry-without once having heard the pop of a cork. Since 1954, only 268 Auerhahne have been shot in the West German woods. Of these, 90 were shot down by U.S. armed forces personnel, who have taken to the sport with so much enthusiasm that they have already organized 100 hunting parties for the 1961 season that opened last week...
...force behind Abilities is its evangelistic president, Henry Viscardi Jr., 48, who knows firsthand the problems of cripples; he was born with stumps for legs. Until he was 25 years old, he hobbled about in cork-stuffed orthopedic boots, looking so grotesque that, he recalls, classmates dubbed him "the ape man.' Then a friend helped him get aluminum legs. Overnight he "grew" from 3 ft. 8 in. to 5 ft. 8 in., became imbued with a fervor to give the same sort of boost to other handicapped...