Word: corking
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...threat of a Nazi Army moving through France and Spain to cork up Gibraltar and garrison northwest Africa was serious indeed to the British. If such a campaign succeeded, the British would practically have to abandon the western Mediterranean and Germany would have another base for the Battle of the Atlantic, as well as a steppingstone on the route to South America via Dakar...
Annie takes up the torch of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst after Cork burns down her schoolhouse. Eager to bring Cork to trial, she discovers that women can't serve on the jury because they haven't the right to vote. Annie heads for Cheyenne and the legislature to change all that. Her fervor kindles the latent womanhood of a jaded cabaret queen, Elsie (Gladys George). It is no trick for Elsie and her chorus of fancy dollies, who are on kissing-cousin terms with the legislature, to get Annie's bill for woman suffrage introduced. Annie does...
...lady is prim, pretty Annie Morgan (Loretta Young), Quaker schoolma'am, who manages to ogle a choice lot out of Steve Lewis (Robert Preston), a lazy lawyer auctioning off land for Jim Cork (Edward Arnold), local tyrant, political boss, saloon keeper in the frontier town of Laraville...
...England, and the freight routed over railroads. Then, under the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, the President could seize or purchase any U.S. ship, set up priorities under which ships now hauling fruit, silk and luxuries would begin moving the 19,000,000 tons of asbestos, bauxite, copper, cork, manganese, rubber, tin, sisal, nitrates, tungsten, vanadium and other strategic materials the U.S. needs for defense production. Thousands of tons of these materials are piled on foreign docks...
...cork: a new National Defense Mediation Board. He hoped the cork would hold...