Word: corking
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...somewhat changed, more modest, even more ascetic Ben Cohen who now settled himself at practical Jimmy Byrnes's right hand-ready to draft his orders, do his leg work, feed him ideas. In the palmy middle years of the New Deal, Ben Cohen and Thomas G. ("The Cork") Corcoran were in there swinging hard for New Deal reforms. They drafted the SEC and Holding Company Acts; they helped map Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court fight, helped plot the unsuccessful 1938 political purge...
...reasons: 1) the U.S. needs Spanish tungsten ore and cork (an RFC buying agency, blessed by both the State Department and the Board of Economic Warfare, is now doing business with Franco); 2) the U.S. is being hurt by Spanish Falangist propaganda in the Americas...
...brackets and bumped down the clifflike deck." Seamen flung themselves overboard to escape the runaway shells. Thorpe himself slid down a rope into the thick, oil-coated sea, let go, realized with horror that he had not blown enough air into his lifebelt. He thrashed his way to a cork float...
Ever since the first alien Bowen muscled his way with Cromwell into County Cork, ten generations of Bowen gentry have had a mania for land. For without land the Protestant Anglo-Irish gentry had nothing. In Catholic Ireland, they were spiritual aliens, "people of the ruins...
When the English invaders divvied up the best Irish lands, Henry settled down on his share, a small estate in the northern part of County Cork. There he established the Bowen dynasty which for 250 years lived defensively on its ingrown clannishness. Those were years of an "intense, centripetal life . . . isolated by something very much more lasting than the physical facts of space...