Word: corking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thus caught between its commitment to restoring democratic rule in Haiti and its determination to cork the outpouring of boat people, the Bush Administration weighed several unsatisfactory steps. One possibility was to end the embargo, which has hit poor Haitians the hardest. Such a reversal of policy, however, could prove messy for Bush in an election year. A military intervention in a country that poses no threat to international peace and security would be all but impossible to justify; last week the State Department quickly denied that any military option was being considered at present. The likeliest option...
...town -- the greater Bay Area, for that matter -- is sicklied o'er with restaurants. Culinary czars rule a population where schoolchildren learn the meaning of chanterelle and shiitake before they study the alphabet. Beer can come in a bottle with a champagne cork, and spaghetti automatically means fennel-raspberry pasta. To ask for a glass of ordinary tap water or regular coffee is to admit that you hail from Tulsa. Pretentious readings of bogus poetry have now been supplanted by SF Net, a coffeehouse computer linkup that enables pseudo avant-gardists to cross-chat electronically over their caffe e latte...
...with slightly sleeker styling and trendy materials like black patent leather, the shoes have increased in sales 30% during each of the past three years. This year Birkenstock Footprint Sandals expects a 40% increase, to about 1.4 million pairs. They are still made with layers of suede, jute and cork, with the sole contoured to the natural shape of the foot and a shock-absorbent foot bed. Prices range from $50 to $130 for adult sizes...
Screenplay by John Cork...
...George Bachrach, Democratic activist: "Weld is a cork floating in John Silber's ocean. He had no control over this race. It was all John Silber."--Nov. 8 in the Boston Globe...