Word: corking
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...half-time formation the Dartmouth band formed a beer mug, and then emptied it. The Crimson promptly raised the problem of liquor consumption to a more sophisticated level by popping the cork from a huge bottle of champagne and pouring the sparkling liquid into an awaiting cup. They finished off the whole affair with an ultra-polite...
...since the great potato blight of 1846 packed U.S.-bound Irishmen by the thousands into stinking steerages had the people of Cork seen such seaborne misery. "What's to become of them?" asked one spectator emptily, as he gazed at the puny, battered British landing craft clinging to the Cork wharfside. Strings of ragged laundry hung on her forepeak. Bales, boxes, kiddie cars and prams overflowed from some of her lifeboats. In others, passengers, unable to find space on cluttered decks, sat patiently and nibbled at their meager rations...
...they hit a rock and stove in the ship's plates. Many of the mattresses got soaked. The passengers slept huddled in corners. The air was hot and fetid in the packed cabin, and drinking water ran low and thirst high long before the five-day trip to Cork was over...
...Cork the sympathetic Irish did what they could. Bustling, white-haired Mrs. Tom Barry cajoled bakers into giving free bread, and greengrocers into supplying fruits and vegetables. She collected old clothes, rushed an Estonian mother to a maternity ward just in time (twins), and browbeat the government into giving the refugees an unused army camp for their stay. Cork's taxi drivers even sacrificed good fares to take the penniless voyagers by the carload up to kiss the Blarney Stone...
...must go to America, man." said Cork's kindly harbor master, Albert Barnes, last week as the old vessel was hauled out for repairs vital to the journey, "for pity's sake, take the easy stage by Spain and the Azores...