Word: corking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrange group fares." On the road, the activities occasionally deviate somewhat from physics. One night Stephen accompanied a group to a Chicago discotheque, where he joined in the festivities by wheeling onto the dance floor and spinning his chair in circles. Later, in a restaurant, a waiter passed the cork from a newly opened bottle of wine under Stephen's nose. The computer beeped, and the voice proclaimed, "Very good." Hawking was just being polite; the tracheostomy also deprived him of his sense of smell. Says Indian-born Amarjit Chohan, one of Stephen's nurses: "There is an aura around...
...Roberts of Holladay, Utah, was having trouble opening a plastic two-liter bottle of Diet 7-Up. So she took a wrench to it, as she had many times in the past, but the results were disastrous. The top shot off like a champagne cork and struck her in the left eye, destroying most of the iris...
...stories! The first major storm, according to Janis, "built and built and built and lasted 24 hours. There's nothing you can do 300 miles from a coast but button it up and bob like a cork until it blows over. I don't like weather like that, but I don't panic. Things break all over the place, and you have to find a port and get them fixed...
...residence comes equipped with a spacious sun porch; Prince Orlofsky's pleasure palace boasts both a grand foyer and a palm-court refectory that make Maxim's look understated. When it comes to grandeur, Otto Schenk and Gunther Schneider-Siemssen's magnum of a production has popped its cork...
...Harvardians are all set. We've got our tickets, our seating blocks, our booze and our "Yale sucks!" gear. All we have to do now is make it across the river to the Stadium, and wait for the first cork...