Word: corking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dark Shadows also has a recorded repertory of 3,000 sound effects and a few tricks that go back to radio days. The werewolf calls are authentic lobo cries, but for the squeak of bats in the night, a technician rubs a cork on the side of a bottle. The bats themselves are plastic and wired for flight. Coffins, cakes of dry ice (for eerie ground fog) and quarts of stage blood litter the studio. To spook up the manor with cobwebs, the crew flings chunks of latex into an electric fan, which scatters them authentically over the walls...
...mistress he shared with the Prince of Wales, he missed the boat train to Liverpool. His ship, the Bothnia, was to dock in Ireland before continuing to New York, so Frewen caught the night boat to Dublin, hired a special train to speed him to the port in Cork, and arrived just as the Bothnia steamed out of the harbor. He had, however, cabled his brother Richard, who was already on board, to send a tender for him, and he made a dashing transfer to the Bothnia...
...simple comparison of last Saturday's times with Harvard performances is misleading because Princeton ran on Penn's "Tartan" track, a composition of cork and rubber which is faster than Harvard's cinder surface...
...when this guy comes up and starts getting pretty obnoxious. I tell him, 'Get lost, creep,' and he looks at me and says, 'You know something, buddy? You're a -,' I reach across the table, grab his tie, give it a half-turn, and cork him one. Then I slam his head down on the table, and it breaks a couple of beer bottles. The last I see of him, he's crawling out the door on his hands and knees. Later I find out he's a small-time hood and packs...
...mahogany siding to give a textured look. Even synthetic barn boards are on the way. The Abitibi Corp. recently brought out a hardboard paneling called "Barnboard," and, says an executive, "it's one of our biggest sellers. We're moving 3,000,000 ft. per month." Armstrong Cork has just put on the market its "Sturbridge paneling," made of compressed wood fibers, which is embossed by molds made from antique barn siding and is practically indistinguishable from the real thing...